The following reply was made to PR misc/28533; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: cwr@nexthop.com (Christopher W. Richardson)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/28533
Date: 14 Feb 2005 12:42:54 -0500

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 This seems to still be a problem on the netbsd-2-0 branch.
 
 cwr@achilles#uname -a
 NetBSD achilles 2.0 NetBSD 2.0 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Dec  1 10:58:25 UTC 2004 builds@build:/big/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/i386/200411300000Z-obj/big/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
 cwr@achilles#cat CVS/Tag
 Tnetbsd-2-0
 cwr@achilles#./build.sh -O ../obj -T ../tools -U -u distribution
 [...]
 nbinstall: MAKEDEV: stat: No such file or directory
 
 *** Failed target:  install-etc-files
 *** Failed command: cd /usr/src/../obj/etc && STRIP=/usr/src/../tools/bin/i386--netbsdelf-strip /usr/src/../tools/bin/nbinstall -U -M /usr/src/../obj/destdir.i386/METALOG -D /usr/src/../obj/destdir.i386 -h sha1 -N /usr/src/etc -c -p -r -T etc_pkg -o root -g wheel -m 555 MAKEDEV /usr/src/../obj/destdir.i386/dev
 *** Error code 1
 
 
 
 That was on sources updated yesterday, and has been persisting
 for a while.  I'm going to post a question on tech-toolchain and
 see if a) this should more properly be categorized as "toolchain"
 instead of "misc", and b) if anyone has any suggestions.
 
 Regards,
 Chris
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