>> This is strange, using "sh build.sh tools" and
>> "sh build.sh -T /usr/tools tools" I get a configure error about
>> the system requiring a working C++ compiler.
>> 
>> Any ideas what is causing this?  The src treen was anoncvs'd 
>> this morning.
>> 
>> -Sean
>
>A known problem in building with DESTDIR=/...  I backed out of this error 
>with the help of
>
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2002/12/02/0001.html.
>
>There's a lot of info about this in the above thread and others.

Thanks, turns out that the issue described in that message (and 
some of the others) were the problem I was having.  But the fix
I had to do was to unpack comp.tar.gz again and have it overwrite
the changes to the local system.  Afte that the build and install
went cleanly.

-Sean