simonb@telstra.com.au said:
> 	cc -x assembler-with-cpp -traditional-cpp -D_LOCORE -I/NetBSD/src/sys/
> lib/libkern/arch/mips -I../../. -I../../../../../../arch -I../../../../
> ../.. -nostdinc -DMIPS1 -DMIPS3 -DNKMEMCLUSTERS=1024 -DHZ=256
> -DMAXUSERS=64 -D_KERNEL -Dpmax  -c -traditional-cpp -DPIC -DABICALLS /
> NetBSD/src/sys/lib/libkern/arch/mips/memcpy.S 

Hmm - my mips/memcpy.S looks like

        .data
        .globl  __no_memcpy
__no_memcpy:    .word 0

So it doesn't provide a usable memcpy() function.

> Clutching at straws, do you have
> an old make(1) that has MACHINE_ARCH=mips instead of mipsel?

I'll double-check, but it seems that's not the reason.

thanks & best regards
Matthias