Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> writes:

> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:11:05PM +0000, Tobias Nygren wrote:
>> Log Message:
>> non-current make(1) doesn't support -V.
>
> I'm sure we don't support any such make any longer. This is effectively
> only NetBSD 1.6 and for that bmake is needed for other reasons as well.
>
> Joerg

The failure occurred on a system running NetBSD 3.1ish (netbsd-3 from
the stable branch from some time in the last 6 months).