The following reply was made to PR toolchain/24020; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Havard Eidnes <he@NetBSD.org>
To: lukem@NetBSD.org
Cc: jmmv@menta.net, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gson@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/24020: install in src/x11/bin/ssh-askpass fails if using
 -j N
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:30:35 +0200 (CEST)

 > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:10:45PM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
 >   | a colleague and myself toyed around a bit with this, and didn't
 >   | really understand why all that complicated renaming back and fort=
 h
 >   | is necessary at all, especially since it doesn't really work...
 >   | =
 
 >   | So, I think that by simplifying the Makefile we managed to make t=
 his
 >   | finally work robustly, and the diff is
 >
 > I tested this to some degree, and it's slightly broken.
 > Adding back the BUILDSYMLINKS line fixed it.
 > (Maybe you have a stale SshAskpass.ad in your source tree?)
 
 Yes, indeed I did.  It was a symlink.  Unsurprisingly, cvs didn't
 mention it during "cvs update".  I suspect it was a leftover from
 an era when xsrc was not built via src/x11/.
 
 Regards,
 
 - H=E5vard