> should have found that man page. The file has a "g" as first letter.
> "make*" doesn't match "gmake".

Sorry - my fault - I was looking for the make man page. The chmod of
/usr/share/man/cat1 worked nicely, and as it was  rrr find didn't go
inside it - thank you for the  replies.

> Try recompiling with a larger datasize. IIRC the default datasize is 16MB.
> To increase it to e.g. 30MB do

Update on my  compiler problem: (long story)
I tried to ld any 2 object files and got the same problem, even though
nm <object file> seemed to give sensible output ie., the object file
wasn't corrupt => as all the original sources were in Fortran, I
concatenated them and converted that to c. It may be that in the
conversion a symbol in one Fortran file didn't get converted into the
same symbol when it appeared in another Fortran file. Now I am still
stuck as the resultant c source huge, so I get errors at the assembler
stage. Unfortunately I don't believe the validity of the error
messages. Some details are included below and I wonder what to do as I
think there is ample memory in the machine to achieve the compile
(all ran without X and just me logged in).

Any hints appreciated!

  Patrick

==========================================================================

The error with optimising:

/usr/libexec/cc1 huge.i -quiet -dumpbase huge.c -O -version -o huge.s
GNU C version 2.7.2.1 (ARM/NetBSD) compiled by GNU C version 2.7.2.1.
as -o huge.o huge.s
huge.s: Assembler messages:
huge.s:293834: Error: Garbage following instruction -- statement `stmia r2,{r3,r4},#0]'
huge.s:293849: Fatal error:Symbol L9589 already defined.
*** Error code 1

Stop.

==========================================================================

The error without optimising:

/usr/libexec/cc1 huge.i -quiet -dumpbase huge.c -version -o huge.s
GNU C version 2.7.2.1 (ARM/NetBSD) compiled by GNU C version 2.7.2.1.
as -o huge.o huge.s
huge.s: Assembler messages:
huge.s:215886: Error: bad instruction `l [r0,#-((4+.-LC4125)&4095)]'
huge.s:215895: Fatal error:Symbol L4602 already defined.
*** Error code 1

Stop.

==========================================================================

limits used:

cputime 	unlimited
filesize 	unlimited
datasize 	262144 kbytes
stacksize 	8192 kbytes
coredumpsize 	unlimited
memoryuse 	35532 kbytes
memorylocked 	35532 kbytes
maxproc 	532 
openfiles 	1772 

==========================================================================

The makefile:

gulp:	huge.o
	ld -e start -dc -dp /usr/lib/crt0.o -L/usr/libexec huge.o -lgcc -lc -lgcc -lf2c -lm -o gulp
huge.o:	huge.s
	as -o huge.o huge.s
huge.s:	huge.c huge.i
	/usr/libexec/cc1 huge.i -quiet -dumpbase huge.c -version -o huge.s
huge.i:	huge.c
	/usr/libexec/cpp -lang-c -v -undef -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=7 -Dunix -Darm32 -D__arm32__ -D__arm6__ -Driscbsd -D__NetBSD__ -D__KPRINTF_ATTRIBUTE__ -D__unix__ -D__arm32__ -D__arm32__ -D__arm6__ -D__riscbsd__ -D__NetBSD__ -D__KPRINTF_ATTRIBUTE__ -D__unix -D__arm32 -D__riscbsd '-Asystem(unix) -Asystem(NetBSD) -Acpu(arm) -Amachine(arm)' -D__CHAR_UNSIGNED__ -I/usr/local/include huge.c huge.i
huge.c:	huge.f sizes.f
	f2c -Nn802 -Nx800 huge.f
huge.f:	abc.f def.f ghi.f klm.f nop.f q.f rs.f tuv.f
	cp abc.f huge.f
	cat def.f >> huge.f
	cat ghi.f >> huge.f
	cat klm.f >> huge.f
	cat nop.f >> huge.f
	cat q.f   >> huge.f
	cat rs.f  >> huge.f
	cat tuv.f >> huge.f