There were a few glitches in building the pre-Alpha snapshot.

  * The /usr/bin/lint binary was broken (linked against deprecated libc.so.13)

  * The xbase.tar.gz set did not include the X11 shared libraries (ouch!)

  * The comp.tar.gz set did not include the /usr/lib/lib*_pic.a libraries

So I've rebuilt the tarballs and updated all the *.tar.gz. sets in the
snapshot directory on ftp.netbsd.org.  It will take a day or so for
mirrors to catch up. Anyone who's really keen to install this and
check it out should  get the tarballs directly or check that your
mirror matches the following:

-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd  11685376 Oct 27 00:32 base.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd  11347856 Oct 27 01:13 comp.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  users    6869629 Oct 26 01:27 diskimage.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd     53007 Oct 27 01:13 etc.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd   3042180 Oct 27 01:19 games.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd   2578569 Oct 27 01:24 man.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd   2192255 Oct 27 01:28 misc.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd   1067412 Oct 27 01:31 text.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd   8929711 Oct 27 17:28 xbase.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd   2201884 Oct 27 17:39 xcomp.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 jonathan  netbsd   1653141 Oct 27 17:47 xserver.tar.gz


PLEASE NOTE: there are some known glitches in this snapshot.  The
  /usr/bin/ld is the one used to rebuild the snapshot. I have *not*
  rebuilt it, and it dies on some files (e.g., linking
  games/backgammon.)  For now, I don't plan to upgrade ld until after
  the 1.3_ALPHA snapshot is out; rebuilding the toolchain with the
  new ld and then rebuilding the entire tree (including X11) would
  take too long. I'll do that immediately after kicking out a 1.3-ALPHA
  snapshot.  
  So I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who rebuilds binutils-2.8.1,
  installs it, and rebuilds a sup tree from Tuesday Oct 28 or later.

I haven't updated the diskimage.gz or diskimage.tar.gz; they should
still be okay as-is.