OK.  That was the problem.  I accidentally omitted the -P option.
Thanks for your help.

--
Ian Cooper
ian@wpi.edu

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, David Brownlee wrote:

> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:28:22 +0000 (GMT)
> From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
> To: Ian Cooper <ian@WPI.EDU>
> Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Problems compiling shells/bash2 out of the box
>
> 	I'd be inclined to stick with CVS - you should be using the -d -P
> 	options to update (or havd a .csvrc that contains 'update -d -P'),
> 	that will prune the empty directories automatically after a cvs
> 	run.
>
> 	The other option which avoids any network usage:
> 		cd .../pkgsrc
> 		rm -rf */*/pkg
>
>
> --
> 		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Ian Cooper wrote:
>
> > Would it be more inclined to work if I downloaded the pkgsrc snapshot
> > via ftp instead of CVS?  CVS reports an error right now.
> >
> > --
> > Ian Cooper
> > ian@wpi.edu
> >
> > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:20:36 +0000 (GMT)
> > > From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
> > > To: Ian Cooper <ian@WPI.EDU>
> > > Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: Problems compiling shells/bash2 out of the box
> > >
> > > 	The workaround would be to delete the pkg sundirectories of the
> > > 	affected packages. Hopefully this should be fixed soon.
> > >
> > > --
> > > 		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Ian Cooper wrote:
> > >
> > > > >   make: don't know how to make /usr/pkgsrc/devel/libtool-base/pkg/PLIST
> > > >
> > > > A similar error occurs for about any package that I try to install (in
> > > > the 'make install' step).  Do I have something set up wrong?  (that
> > > > file doesn't even exist).
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > --Ian
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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