i'm on netbsd-1.4y/alpha. i'm having problems with some of the packages. 
they can't seem to find other libraries that they depend on. for instance, 
the tiff package which uses zlib. i compile zlib and install it. then tell 
the tiff package where the libs are. but when i ldd tiff:

# ldd /usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so.3.5
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so.3.5:
          -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12

it doesn't list the zlib. and other software that uses libtiff have 
problems cause it can't find the zlib. shouldn't the zlib rpath be compiled 
in during the link phase?

cd gdft; make; cd ..
gcc -O2  -Wall -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA  -DUSE_EPPL  -DUSE_TTF  -DUSE_TIFF 
-DUSE_JPEG -DUSE_GD_1_2
-I/home/staff/t/tom/work/gd/gd-1.2 
-I/home/staff/t/tom/work/mapserver/mapserver-cvs/gdft -I/usr/pk
g/include        -I/usr/pkg//include -I/usr/pkg/include  shp2img.o -L. 
-lmap -L/home/staff/t/tom/w
ork/gd/gd-1.2 -lgd -L/home/staff/t/tom/work/mapserver/mapserver-cvs/gdft 
-lgdft -L/usr/pkg/lib -lt
tf -L/usr/pkg//lib -ltiff  -L/usr/pkg/lib -ljpeg   -lm -o shp2img
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `deflate'
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `inflate'
/usr/pkg/lib/libttf.so: undefined reference to `dgettext'
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `inflateInit_'
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `deflateInit_'
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `inflateReset'
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `deflateReset'
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `inflateSync'
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `deflateParams'
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `inflateEnd'
/usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so: undefined reference to `deflateEnd'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1

here the mapserver software uses libtiff. but it gave that error when it 
tries to access the zlib functions.

any suggestions?

i tried setting 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH', '-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR', `LD_RUN_PATH' 
but nothing seems to help.