The following reply was made to PR pkg/34677; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Magnus Henoch <henoch@dtek.chalmers.se>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34677
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:12:17 +0100

 I have found a fix that doesn't involve libtool.  The error message
 was about relocation type 10, which is RELOC_REL24 according to
 reloc.h.  After compiling liboil, I find:
 
 ~/noarchive/src/liboil-0.3.10/liboil $ objdump -R .libs/liboil-0.3.so | grep -v R_PPC_RELATIVE
 
 .libs/liboil-0.3.so:     file format elf32-powerpc
 
 DYNAMIC RELOCATION RECORDS
 OFFSET   TYPE              VALUE 
 00044e34 R_PPC_REL24       _vec_memcpy
 00044fe8 R_PPC_REL24       _vec_memset
 00083e64 R_PPC_ADDR32      __cxa_finalize
 00083e70 R_PPC_ADDR32      __deregister_frame_info
 [...and much more...]
 
 vec_memcpy and vec_memset are in the liboil/motovec subdirectory,
 written in assembly language.  Figuring out why this happens and how
 to fix it is above me, but simply disabling compilation of the motovec
 subdirectory seems to "fix" the problem.
 
 New patch-ad:
 ---
 $NetBSD$
 
 --- liboil/Makefile.am.orig	2006-11-05 03:14:42.000000000 +0100
 +++ liboil/Makefile.am
 @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ endif
  
  if HAVE_POWERPC
  if HAVE_GCC_ASM
 -SUBDIRS += powerpc motovec
 -libs += powerpc/libpowerpc.la motovec/libmotovec.la
 +SUBDIRS += powerpc #motovec
 +libs += powerpc/libpowerpc.la #motovec/libmotovec.la
  if HAVE_ASM_BLOCKS
  SUBDIRS += powerpc_asm_blocks
  libs += powerpc/libpowerpc_asm_blocks.la
 
 
 ---
 
 Patch to pkgsrc Makefile:
 
 --- Makefile	25 Nov 2006 10:13:54 +0100	1.10
 +++ Makefile	25 Dec 2006 23:36:04 +0100	
 @@ -30,4 +30,9 @@
  SUBST_SED.solaris=	-e 's,<stdint\.h>,<inttypes.h>,'
  .endif
  
 +USE_TOOLS+=		automake autoconf
 +
 +pre-configure:
 +	cd ${WRKSRC}; automake && autoconf
 +
  .include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"
 
 (automake is necessary; I'm not sure if autoconf is)