In message <199409270512.BAA13326@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>you write:
->   o locore.o
->   sh: warning: running as root with dot in PATH
->   ../../i386/locore.s:144: unterminated character constant
->   ../../i386/locore.s:487: unterminated character constant
->   ../../i386/locore.s:566: unterminated character constant
->
->This could only happen if you're using a different `cpp' or `as' than
->the ones supplied in NetBSD.

Wrong ;-(
It happended to me with standard gcc/cpp/as on some other location,
if I remember right, it was during libc build.  I simply typed make
again, and this time it worked.
No, no errors reported anywhere else.

Gruesse
       Oskar

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