Dan,

>this is a bug in pkg_add which has been fixed in more recent versions.  If
>you have a pkgsrc tree, the thing to do is 
>
>cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install && make install && make clean
>
>-Dan

It did compile, although with some hitches. First it stopped but
I retyped "make" and finished. pkg_add worked just fine with the
big package. Thanks.

Dan