Riccardo Mottola wrote:

>     I removed the whole pkgsrc tree. Downloaded today a fresh pkgsrc.tar.gz
> from the official ftp.netbsd.org, uncompressed it in /usr
> (the rest of the 1.6 sytem is still clean as it came out from sysinst)
> 
> now if I login as root from the console of the quadra, go into
> /usr/pkgsrc/pktools/pkg_install
> 
> and type Make
> 
> i get
> 
> make: Unclosed variable specification for PKG_TOOLS_BIN
> make: Unknown modifier ''

That was a gremlin that crept into one of my commits. Please update
your pkgsrc by running "cvs -q up -Pd" in /usr/pkgsrc, then try
again.

- Amitai