On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:31:47PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
  | > Before I committed the changes to tools/compat to check for fparseln,
  | > I tested the changes on a NetBSD 1.6_STABLE system, a -current system
  | > without the migration, and a -current system with the migration,
  | > and tool build worked fine each time.
  | > 
  | > Note; in each case I was building "clean" (I.e, I disabled UPDATE=1),
  | > UNPRIVED, read-only source, to a DESTDIR != /.
  | 
  | But it definitely failed for:
  | 
  | build.sh -d -u -U -D $DESTDIR -O $objdir

Hmmmm....

Maybe the autoconf in tools/compat had cached the value of the
"fparseln is available (in libutil)" check.

Did things start working for you again after you did a make clean in tools/ ?