Since you are refering to an old version, I assume that you are trying to
manually build EMACS.  Is this so?  (When I last built EMACS, the result
was 20.7.1.)

If you want it to ``just work'', make sure that you have pkgsrc installed,
and cd into <pkgsrc>/editors/emacs, and type ``make update''.  This will
download the sources, patch them, build EMACS, install it, and clean up
the working directory.  It will likewise build/install/cleanup any
packages that EMACS needs in order to build/install/run.

If you don't want to use the pkgsrc version for some reason, you might
still look at what pkgsrc does to build EMACS.  (Configuration options,
and patches applied.)


(pkgsrc, if you haven't found out about it, is a system of Makefiles,
patches, and other files, providing for easy building of a wide range of
applications for NetBSD.  I think someone recently claimed we have close
to 1800 packages in the system, now.  The only downside is that one tends
to become a little dependant upon it---or spoiled by it, if you prefer.  
(^&  Also, many pkgsrc packages have been precompiled to binary packages,
if you want to look at those.)


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu