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

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34677
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:50:17 -0500

 This problem still exists with liboil-0.3.12 compiled under NetBSD
 4.0_RC5, with the same deleterious effects (it breaks the compilation
 of meta-pkgs/gnome-base, though the workaround is to build and install
 totem-xine instead, after which point everything builds).