I've got a fairly vanilla 1.3.2 installation on a Sparc IPC, and I'm
trying to set it up to build packages.  I downloaded the pkgsrc.tgz
tarball, extracted it into /usr, then tried to build ssh.  I was
politely informed that I needed to make pkg_install first, so I did.

Ultimately, I ran into a problem where trying to do a 'make' in the
pkg_install directory fails, looking for various .mk include files,
for instance: "bsd.subdir.mk" and "bsd.lib.mk"

I wouldn't be surprised if there are others, but I have no idea where
they should be; did I miss an important package?


Here's the procedure I followed...after tar-extracting pkgsrc.tgz,
I attempted the following:

|   ns# cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
|   ns# make
|   >> pkg_install-19990119.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
|
|   ...[ftp transfer proceeds without incident]
|
|   150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for
|     'pkg_install-19990119.tar.gz' (58142 bytes).
|   100% |********************************************| 58142       00:00 ETA
|   226 Transfer complete.
|   58142 bytes received in 2.01 seconds (28.26 KB/s)
|   221 Goodbye.
|   >> Checksum OK for pkg_install-19990119.tar.gz.
|   ===>  Extracting for pkg_install-19990119
|   ===>  Patching for pkg_install-19990119
|   ===>  Configuring for pkg_install-19990119
|   ===>  Building for pkg_install-19990119
|   "Makefile", line 8: Could not find bsd.subdir.mk
|   Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
|   *** Error code 1
|
|   Stop.
|   *** Error code 1
|
|   Stop.
|   *** Error code 1
|
|   Stop.

The error arises in /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/Makefile, which
tries to include bsd.subdir.mk.  I searched, but found no other
reference to bsd.subdir.mk in the entire pkgsrc tree, though I *did*
find /usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.subdir.mk.

The names are similar...bsd.subdir.mk, bsd.pkg.subdir.mk  It seems
like an easy enough error.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained..." thought I...so I tried copying
bsd.pkg.subdir.mk to /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install (where the
failing make wanted to be able to find it), then ran the make again.
It got a bit further, then hit another wall:

|   ns# pwd
|   /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
|   ns# make
|   ===>  Building for pkg_install-19990119
|   ===> category lib
|   "Makefile", line 15: Could not find bsd.lib.mk
|   Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
|   *** Error code 1
|   
|   Stop.
|   *** Error code 1
|   
|   Stop.
|   *** Error code 1
|   
|   Stop.
|   *** Error code 1
|   
|   Stop.
|   ns# 

I'm lost.  I don't know if my first attempt was off the mark, or if
I'm on the right track and just running into unforseen problems.  I
admit complete cluelessness with respect to these files that need to
be included in the various Makefiles; have I neglected some other
critical package?  I would welcome any suggestions.

Thanks for your patience.

Mike Maciolek