Excerpts from netbsd: 4-Nov-97 Re: Weird "make all" behavior M.
HeadCandy.com@MindBen (1098)

> Hmm... guess I never tried it with "all" last.  However, try "make
> obj depend all install", and see if you are as successful.

I didn't do this before because I build as ordinary user.
When I type "make obj depend all install" it does everything
right until the beginning of "install" -- "all" is definitely
executed.
Perhaps we should check if we have the same *.mk versions.

bash$ ident /usr/share/mk/*.mk|grep NetBSD
     $NetBSD: bsd.dep.mk,v 1.20 1997/05/09 13:25:46 mycroft Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.doc.mk,v 1.35 1997/10/11 08:43:34 mycroft Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.files.mk,v 1.5 1997/05/09 13:25:49 mycroft Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.inc.mk,v 1.10 1997/06/03 16:00:30 cgd Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.kmod.mk,v 1.22 1997/10/11 08:16:25 mycroft Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.lib.mk,v 1.117 1997/10/11 08:16:26 mycroft Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.links.mk,v 1.7 1997/05/10 10:55:19 mycroft Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.man.mk,v 1.34.2.1 1997/11/02 02:50:11 mellon Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.nls.mk,v 1.10 1997/10/11 08:16:28 mycroft Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.obj.mk,v 1.13 1997/05/09 13:25:59 mycroft Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.own.mk,v 1.54.2.1 1997/10/29 00:24:19 mellon Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.port.mk,v 1.13.2.1 1997/10/28 23:29:01 mellon Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.port.subdir.mk,v 1.3 1997/09/25 19:09:35 thorpej Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.prog.mk,v 1.88 1997/10/11 08:16:28 mycroft Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.subdir.mk,v 1.28.2.1 1997/10/29 00:28:28 mellon Exp $
     $NetBSD: bsd.sys.mk,v 1.12 1997/10/12 01:37:50 mikel Exp $
     $NetBSD: sys.mk,v 1.33 1997/05/31 21:22:02 cjs Exp $

best regards
Matthias