On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:50:50PM -0500, Matt Herzog wrote:
> Usually it says something along these lines:
> 
> ld warning: sparc:v8plus architecture of input file 'compat_exec.o.o' is
> incompatible with sparc:v9 output
> 
> ld bfd assertion fail /autobuilder/build/netbsd-1-6/src/gnu/lib/libbfd/../../
> dist/toolchain/bfd/elflink.h:2486
> 

You're building 64bit sparc64 kernel with 32bit compiler.
If you're running 32bit kernel and userland then you need to start from 
sys/arch/sparc/conf/GENERIC_SUN4U configuration.

	Andrey