so...my sparc was happily (slowly) building from a source tree and it
died while i was out with:

...
dependall ===> libarch
dependall ===> libarch/sparc/v8
CC=/usr/src/tools-sparc/bin/sparc--netbsdelf-gcc /usr/src/tools-sparc/bin/nbmkdep -f sparc_v8.d      -nostdinc -isystem /usr/include   -traditional-cpp  /usr/src/lib/libarch/sparc/v8/sparc_v8.S
cat sparc_v8.d /dev/null > .depend
/usr/src/tools-sparc/bin/sparc--netbsdelf-gcc     -nostdinc -isystem /usr/include -c -traditional-cpp -DPIC -DBIGPIC -fPIC -DPIC   /usr/src/lib/libarch/sparc/v8/sparc_v8.S -o sparc_v8.so.tmp
/usr/src/tools-sparc/bin/sparc--netbsdelf-ld -x -r sparc_v8.so.tmp -o sparc_v8.so
rm -f sparc_v8.so.tmp
building shared object sparc_v8 library
Bad pAUX_base
*** Error code 1
...

"huh"?  what's that?  any ideas?

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