The following reply was made to PR bin/36168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/36168: usr.bin/config without ecalloc/friends is harder to compile on older hosts
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:23:08 +0200

 On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:10:00PM +0000, Marc Tooley wrote:
 > >Fix:
 > 	Back out the removal of the functions, I guess. Tests here indicate
 > 	it seems to work just fine.
 
 This is hardly a bug. With even older systems (pre gcc 3.3) you won't
 be able to compile the kernel - not a lot different to this scenario.
 
 "build.sh tools" is your friend, sorry about the inconvenience.
 
 Martin