> Well, I had been following the instructions at
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/#using-anoncvs
>  
> which seem similar, with the exception that it defines some specific
> directories. I haven't been able to get ./build.sh to ever successfully
> finish, though. Once I get it to finish build, I planned on installing

Finish doing what? You should build the tools first.

See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/#updating, note that you
can do step#4 (building the kernel) before step#3 (building distribution).
Then you will have a -current kernel and you can try it without having a
-current userland.

> and then ideally having a uniform environment.
> 
> As far as step 3, I have not done that. According to src/Makefile,
> build implicitly incorporates do-tools,

if you type "config", the config command from your system is used, not the
one from tools. Use build.sh or find the "nbconfig" command in the tools
directory and use that.

so I thought it would be the
> same. It seemed like I could skip step 7 if I followed the next four
> steps, which I planned to do.

The document says that it is a "good idea" to use the new toolchain, which
you have just proved :-)

If you want to invoke the commands manually, use those from the tools.
There is some make wrapper script that sets all the variables and calls
nbmake.

Bye	Pavel