>> I want to make an image on a NetBSD/i386 machine for a CD which will boot
>> an Alpha, so I need to build the NetBSD/alpha version of installboot.  I've
>> extracted these two files

Thanks for replying Manuel and Dan.

Yes, it turned out that I needed more of the source tree from syssrc.tgz --
both usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/include and usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/stand.  It
was also necessary to use /usr/bin/make instead of Gnu make version 3.79.1
which is what I was doing yesterday :(  I'd installed it in
/usr/local/bin/make and hadn't encountered problems using it previously.
Running make from within usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/stand/installboot was
enough to build just installboot.

This raises two points:

1) Which version of make comes with NetBSD 1.5 and how does it differ from Gnu
   make?

2) (Sorry about this one, it's going to reveal a big gap in my knowldege of C.)
   I tried running running /usr/bin/make from within
   usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/stand/installboot with just the
   usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/stand part of the source tree which resulted in:

% make
cc -O2  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
-Wno-unin
itialized -Werror
-I/usr/home/ray/installers/NetBSD/1.5/i386/1/usr/src/sys/arc
h/alpha/stand/installboot/../.. -c installboot.c
installboot.c:65: include/disklabel.h: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

Stop.

  Line 65 of installboot.c is

    #include <include/disklabel.h>  /* defeat <machine/disklabel.h>, force
alpha */

  which apparently tells the C compiler to ignore the three disklabel.h files
  present under /usr/include, viz.

    /usr/include/dev/sun/disklabel.h
    /usr/include/sys/disklabel.h
    /usr/include/i386/disklabel.h

  Does that #include statement tell the preprocessor to move upwards from
  the current directory until you come to a directory containing a directory
  named 'include' which contains the file 'disklabel.h'?  How would that
  compare to the line

    #include <disklabel.h>



Ray