The following reply was made to PR misc/25544; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/25544: building stable tools fails on current
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:23:19 +0100

 Greg A. Woods wrote:
 [...]
 >  Jukka Salmi wrote:
 >  >=20
 >  > Greg A. Woods wrote:
 >  > >  Hmmm....  what exactly where the fixes for this, and if they're not
 >  > >  already supposed to be present on the netbsd-3 branch, could we have
 >  > >  them there too please?  If the fixes are already supposed to be there,
 >  > >  well I'm not seeing them as I still see the exact same problems when
 >  > >  building the netbsd-1-6 branch on a netbsd-3 based machine.
 >  > > =20
 >  > >  (I.e. it would be very nice to be able to use netbsd-3 systems to host
 >  > >  (re)builds of older systems too.)
 >  >=20
 >  > AFAIK the [1]fixes were [2]pulled up to netbsd-2-0.
 >  > 
 >  > 
 >  > [1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2004/06/20/0016.html
 >  > [2] http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-2-0.cgi?show=3D527
 >  
 >  But apparently still not netbsd-3, which is what I was and am asking about.
 
 These changes were committed to HEAD on 2004-06-20; netbsd-3 was tagged
 after this (early 2005 IIRC). I don't see any of these changes missing
 from netbsd-3.
 
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