OK, I unpacked the text set from the command line.  It took a lot less time than the installer app, too.  My first goal is to get dt compiled.

===> dt-1.1.7nb2 is not available for NetBSD-1.6.m68k

Isn't that the point of building from source?  Oh well.  Let's try aterm instead.

===> Installing for libtool-base-1.4.20010614nb14

I swear I've seen this scroll by at least 4 times now.  Is that normal?  Wish I had a better grasp of the whole package system.  It's been compiling for around 4 hours, I'd guess.  It just finished that and is back to building jpeg-6b now.  (wait)  Another 3 hours, and that's done too.  On to png-1.2.5nb2!  (wait)  Yay, finally completed after about 11 hours total.  Unfortunately it failed, so I have no aterm.  Wish I'd thought to capture a log so I knew what happened.

Now I knew this was going to be a slow process on this tiny box, but I assumed that the packages would at least compile.  Is this 0-for-2 experience typical?  It's a bit disheartening.

Thanks,
Tim

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