On 2 Jan 2000, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

> Brian Stark <bstark@uswest.net> writes:
> > Has anyone else tried to compile the new XFree86 3.9.17 on NetBSD 1.4.1?
> > While processing "make World" in my $XWINHOME/xc directory I saw the
> > following:
> 
> I believe that this is a known problem.  To quote a posting on
> slashdot:
> 
> >Now for the results. The only tweaking that had to be done to the
> >source tree was to remove the doc directory from
> >           the build process. Looks like the top Makefile is missing
> >in the docs directory. After that things compiled just fine
> >           (Debian Potato BTW).

Well, all the Makefiles are generated files, save the top one. So as
long as there's an Imakefile, it should be possible to kickstart it.
He could always do "xmkmf -a" in doc.