Ok, I can't recreate this.

I get:

sh /local1/src/src/tools/lint1/../../usr.bin/xlint/lint1/makeman /usr/obj/local1/src/src/tools/lint1/lint1 -m > lint.7

(on x86) and

sh /amd/celeron/root/local1/src/src/tools/lint1/../../usr.bin/xlint/lint1/makeman /usr/obj/amd/celeron/root/local1/src/src/tools/lint1/lint1 -m > lint.7

on my sparc64 box.

What are your various BSD* vars and OBJ* vars set to? (It's acting like it
doesn't beleive BSDSRCDIR in some cases here).

Also, does it do this inside src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1 ?

(the fix for tools is to prevent lint.7 from being built which I can easily 
do).

James

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>sh /usr/src/tools/lint1/../../usr.bin/xlint/lint1/makeman /var/obj.sparc64/usr/src/tools/lint1/lint1 -m > /usr/src/tools/lint1/lint.7
>cannot create /usr/src/tools/lint1/lint.7: read-only file system
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