The following reply was made to PR pkg/35617; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/35617: shared library (e.g., libgdal.so) not built/installed
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:30:08 +0100

 On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:55:00PM +0000, Brook Milligan wrote:
 > 	Add the following patch to the set of patches for the package
 > to allow shared libraries to be built even with undefined symbols.
 > This enables the shared libraries to be built and installed.
 > Additionally, dependent packages now work fine.
 
 I strongly object such a fix.
 
 Joerg