pkg/48646: ld error when building www/firefox24

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>Number:         48646
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       ld error when building www/firefox24
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 08 10:40:00 +0000 2014
>Originator:     Ian Leroux
>Release:        pkgsrc checked out 2014-03-07
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD/amd64 6.99.32
>Description:
Attempting to make package for www/firefox24 leads to the following error:

ld: 
/pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/www/firefox24/default/.buildlink/lib/libhunspell-1.3.a(hunspell.o):
 relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a 
shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/www/firefox24/default/.buildlink/lib/libhunspell-1.3.a: 
could not read symbols: Bad value
../../config/rules.mk:1023: recipe for target 'libxul.so' failed

The error also occurs when attempting to build www/firefox, so it is not 
specific to the ESR branch.
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox24
make package
>Fix: