>> I re-installed bmake on the bin:bin machine a lot [...]  Several times I
>> broke pkgsrc and had to build bmake stand-alone in /usr/local/.
> how did you build bmake standalone?

 I think I just used the tar file from distfiles/ and some suggestive command
lines from the Makefile.  Then I moved on to "bmake replace", before giving up.
This was months ago.  Definitely feels like something I messed up, and not a
pkgsrc problem.

> we have some local modifications there specifically for pkgsrc...

 That machine was due for a scrubbing anyway, I think I'll start from scratch.