In article <Pine.NEB.4.10.9909251429250.13469-100000@lamar.rem.cmu.edu>,
	Andrew Y Ng <ayn@Ngbert.org> writes:
> This happens with several other packages as well, any clue
> as to what the problem is?

You use the original XFree86 3.3.5 sources instead of NetBSD's X11 sources.
You can fix it by adding this line to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/NetBSD.cf":

#define HasMktemp               NO

	Kind regards

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