On Thu, 4 Sep 1997 22:53:43 +0930 (CST) 
 Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au> wrote:

 > param.c
 > cc1: warnings being treated as errors
 > machine/intr.h: In function `_splraise':
 > In file included from machine/param.h:158,
 >                  from ../../../../sys/param.h:94,
 >                  from param.c:43:
 > machine/intr.h:62: warning: implicit declaration of function
 > `alpha_pal_rdps'

??

Make sure you have:

/* $NetBSD: alpha_cpu.h,v 1.11 1997/09/03 23:09:05 thorpej Exp $ */

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