>* bmake isn't part of the cross tools yet.  I am working on a vendor-make
>  bootstrap that will compile Berkeley make, followed by running "make
>  build".  Not relevant to NetBSD-hosted builds.

Why not simply use the bmake in pkgsrc?  It knows how to bootstrap itself.
(I'm assuming you are still using "bmake" to refer to something other than
the bmake in pkgsrc of course :-)

--sjg