The following reply was made to PR pkg/33181; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Shin'ichiro TAYA" <taya@ba2.so-net.ne.jp>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: taya@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org,
	martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl, port-amd64@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/33181: www/firefox fails to build on -current/amd64
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:58:23 +0900

 joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
 >  On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 12:45:01PM +0000, martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl wrote:
 >  >         Firefox fails to build, failing with a linker error. See 
 >  > 
 >  > http://bigbird.dohd.org:3021/NetBSD/pkgstat/20060325.0310/www/firefox/.broken.html
 >  
 >  This is a problem of the inline assembly, which depends on a text
 >  relocation. This is not supported by the newer binutils anymore. The
 >  problem is that I don't have enough knowledge of the amd64 calling
 >  convention to fix it myself. The call has to use the correct GOT
 >  addressing, when __PIC__ is defined.
 
 Using same xpcom code as Linux using, firefox works on current amd64.
 I don't known about 3.0.
 Does anybody using 3.0 confirm this ?
 
 ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pub/pkgsrc/misc/taya/firefox.tar.gz