Thus spake mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu
> > Check it out.  http://www.druid.net/darcy/databases.py-postgresql.txt.
> 
> so what's LDSHARED set to in /usr/pkg/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile?  On
> my system its "ld -Bshareable".

LDSHARED=   cc -shared

So now we know that we are looking for something in the Python build,
not the PyGreSQL build.

Aha!

    NetBSD*)
        if [ "`$CC -dM -E - </dev/null | grep __ELF__`" != "" ]
        then
            LDSHARED="cc -shared"
        else
            LDSHARED="ld -Bshareable"
        fi;;

Hmm.  I know I have built this package on a.out systems.  Oh well, we
have the answer.  I'll go make the change to the PyGreSQL package.

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