> I am running NetBSD 1.5.2, while I do know this is a bit old it has been 
> working flawlessly for me until now. I have upgraded the source so that I 
> can recompile my kernel.

As other responses have suggested, if you're building 1.6, 1.6_STABLE
or -current you will want to grab the full source tree (not just the
kernel) and use build.sh.

I can report that a build of 1.6_STABLE/i386 on a 1.5.1/i386 host
worked on 2003-01-02.  (Which is why I'm responding - might as well
put the news into the list archives. :-)

$ uname -a
NetBSD nemeton.com.au 1.6_STABLE NetBSD 1.6_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jan  2 15:27:08 EST 2003     unpriv@nemeton.com.au:/usr/local/NetBSD/netbsd-1-6/Objdir/usr/local/NetBSD/netbsd-1-6/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

Regards,

Giles

P.S. I'm sure someone has a longer uname -a output than that one?