To solve my problem I created a directory called packages in 
/usr/pkgsrc.  I also switched my root shell from bash to csh. I'm not 
sure if it will work in bash. It's making readme's right now.

Daniel

At 11:51 PM -0800 11/4/2000, Daniel Parks wrote:
>At 10:01 AM -0800 10/30/2000, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>>  >     root /usr/pkgsrc$ make readme
>>>      cd: can't cd to archivers
>>>      *** Error code 2
>>>
>>>      Stop.
>>>      *** Error code 1
>>>
>>>      Stop.
>>>
>>>  I get a similar error when I try to run make in the directory of a
>>>  package I want to install and some of the dependencies are missing.
>>>
>>>  Any ideas?
>>
>>None other than try a few ls -l's to see if something's wrong.
>
>Nothing seems to be wrong. sup -s works fine... I configured it 
>following the instructions on the NetBSD packages web page.
>
>root /usr/pkgsrc$ ls -l /usr/pkgsrc
>total 160
>-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   3704 Sep  7 04:34 Makefile
>-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel  90270 Nov  2 04:29 Packages.txt
>-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   3973 Jul 24 04:11 README
>-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   4291 Oct 29 22:09 README.html
>drwxrwxr-x   35 root  wheel   1024 Nov  4 08:01 archivers
>drwxrwxr-x   96 root  wheel   2048 Nov  4 08:04 audio
>- - - <snip> - - -
>drwxrwxr-x  100 root  wheel   2048 Nov  4 04:17 www
>drwxrwxr-x  174 root  wheel   3584 Nov  4 04:17 x11
>root /usr/pkgsrc$ ls -l /usr/pkgsrc/archivers
>total 39
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   810 Jul 21 04:06 Makefile
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  4099 Oct 29 22:45 README.html
>drwxrwxr-x  5 root  wheel   512 Nov  4 08:01 arc
>drwxrwxr-x  5 root  wheel   512 Nov  4 08:01 bunzip
>- - - <snip> - - -
>drwxrwxr-x  5 root  wheel   512 Nov  4 08:03 zip1
>drwxrwxr-x  5 root  wheel   512 Nov  4 08:03 zoo
>
>However, there is no /usr/pkgsrc/audio/README.html
>At one point I cd'd to archivers, and typed make readme. I think 
>this is what created the archivers/README.html although as I 
>remember the make failed because it couldn't cd.
>
>Any more ideas? I think this is going to be one of those things 
>where I'm doing something really stupid... ;-)
>
>Thanks,
>Daniel