On Wed, 27 May 1998, NetBSD source changes wrote:

: src/Makefile
:     (scottr - Tue May 26 23:38:37 PDT 1998)
:     Revert 1.44 and associated changes; you can't prebuild anything without
:     includes, which is the case if you are building to an empty .
:     Fixes PR 5497.
:     
:     NOTE:  This reverts us to the 1.3 behavior of requiring the secr
:     set to be installed for non-exportable builds.

No, it requires that these binaries exist in a "local" build environment.
If you want to go install a complete binary set for this, fine, but it
doesn't have to be.  I'm seriously considering making a "toolchain:" target
in the toplevel Makefile which unsets $DESTDIR for the time needed to build
and install programs like rpcgen, compile_et, and make_cmds.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)