The following reply was made to PR pkg/36929; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yakovetsky Vladimir <yx@x.ua>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: obache@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/36929 (net/tacacs: fails to build with gcc4)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:14:22 +0300

 On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:48:44AM +0000, obache@NetBSD.org wrote:
 > Synopsis: net/tacacs: fails to build with gcc4
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: obache@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:48:42 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > Simply removing the 'extern' line seems OK.
 > Why do you want to keep the line if using gcc<4.0 ?
 > 
   As forward declarations to static variables are valid gcc<4
   that we can keep this line to not change an author's original code
   (and a case for gcc4 having preprocessing).
 
 p.s. and really, as in the pkgsrc version of tacacs
  forward declaration to nopasswd_str is not used
  is possible (I am agree with you) to clean simply this line.
 
 
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 Yakovetsky Vladimir