Mark R. Nathan wrote
> installed and extracted
> 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc.tar.gz
> 
> and then attempted to 'make' openssh in its directory and I get an 
> fatal error saying
> 
> ../../mk/bsd.prefs.mk", line 87: Could not find bsd.own.mk
> 
> bsd.prefs.mk is in the mk folder but I can't find any reference to bsd.own.mk.
> 
> Doing some research,  other BSD OS's are supposed to have this 
> bsd.own.mk in their mk folder so I must wonder if my install of 
> pkgsrc went bad.

It should be in /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk and is part of NetBSD.

Sounds like an incomplete installation to me...

cheerio Berndt
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