Quoting Curt Sampson,

> Hmm. It seems likely to be something to do with running under
> Solaris, since most of my cross-development when I was testing was
> hosted on a Sparc running NetBSD and targeted to an i386.

FWIW, about a year ago I tried doing exactly that: crosscompile
on Solaris/sparc -> NetBSD/i386, and had exactly the same problem.

I never investigated it further, though.

- Frank