On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:01:54PM +0200, Ingolf Steinbach wrote:
  | I'm trying to cross-compile netbsd-1-6 release for sparc on a
  | 1.5.3_ALPHA i386 machine -- without success. The build.sh
  | script always terminates with
  | 
  |     Creating image into miniroot.fs...
  |     rm -f miniroot.fs miniroot.fs.tmp
  |     /usr/obj/tools/tools.NetBSD-1.5.3_ALPHA-i386/bin/nbmakefs
  |         -t ffs -B be -s 7680k -F work.spec  -N /usr/current-src/etc
  |         -o bsize=4096,fsize=512
  |         -o optimization=space,minfree=0,nsectors=1,ntracks=128
  |         -o density=4k miniroot.fs.tmp work  &&
  |         mv -f miniroot.fs.tmp miniroot.fs
  |     nbmakefs: `work' size of 9654272 is larger than the maxsize of 7864320.
  | 
  | Does this only happen when cross-compiling? How can I enlarge
  | the miniroot.fs?

Do you have COPTS=-g (or something like that) in /etc/mk.conf?
That will affect the size of the compiled binaries.

The sparc 1.6_BETA1 releases cross compiled from an i386 box have been
building without issue.