Please see lynx-dev snippet below from Jan 2005.

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Martin Husemann wrote:

> It is not clear from the context of this thread that this is exactly the
> same lynx, nor how it doesn't compile.
>
> > make is broken.
>
> Maybe. But nothing supporting this hypothesis has been shown here.
>

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:39:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To: Stef Caunter <stef@caunter.ca>
Cc: Lynx Development <lynx-dev@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] UCdomap.c NetBSD2.0

NetBSD ships a broken "make" program.  I have a copy of one of the
prereleases and it does the same thing.  I don't recall exactly, but
probably ran into it before, since I see I'd installed GNU make on
November 10th.  What I see breaking is the

 	"make tables"

in the src/chrtrans directory.  It doesn't do anything.

The copy that comes with NetBSD 1.6 does work; I've been using that for
various testing on a different machine.