In article <XFMail.000226083806.root@garbled.net>,
Tim Rightnour  <root@garbled.net> wrote:
> 
> This is not necc. true.  Many arches in 1.3 had compilers that would choke on
> only -R.. which is why we use -Wl,-R.

There are already quite a few packages that use -R.

I think current pkgsrc on 1.3 is probably a lost cause at this point for
this and other reasons anyway.