The following reply was made to PR port-alpha/36368; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Torsten Harenberg <harenberg@physik.uni-wuppertal.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-alpha/36368
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:22:32 +0200

 I just tried that you *CAN* compile the tools when you're build from  
 NetBSD 3.1:
 
 
 ===> Tools built to /usr/alphatools
 ===> build.sh ended:   Wed May 23 11:17:12 CEST 2007
 ===> Summary of results:
           build.sh command: ./build.sh -T /usr/alphatools -O /usr/ 
 alphaobj -D /usr/alphabuild tools
           build.sh started: Wed May 23 10:04:20 CEST 2007
           NetBSD version:   4.0_BETA2
           MACHINE:          alpha
           MACHINE_ARCH:     alpha
           Build platform:   NetBSD 3.1_STABLE alpha
           HOST_SH:          /bin/sh
           No /usr/alphatools/bin/nbmake, needs building.
           Bootstrapping nbmake
           TOOLDIR path:     /usr/alphatools
           DESTDIR path:     /usr/alphabuild
           RELEASEDIR path:  /usr/alphaobj/releasedir
           Created /usr/alphatools/bin/nbmake
           makewrapper:      /usr/alphatools/bin/nbmake-alpha
           Updated /usr/alphatools/bin/nbmake-alpha
           Tools built to /usr/alphatools
           build.sh ended:   Wed May 23 11:17:12 CEST 2007
 ===> .
 
 However, if you allready run NetBSD 4.0_BETA2, you still cannot (cvs  
 update just an hour ago).
 
 Cheers,
 
     Torsten
 
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