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On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 04:51:27PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote: 
> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Webmaster Jim wrote:
> > 06:28:38/jim> make -n readme
> > rm -f README.html
> > cd /n/usr/pkgsrc/net/ncftp2 && make README.html
> > 06:28:45/jim> cd /n/usr/pkgsrc/net/ncftp2 && make README.html 
> > ===> Creating README.html for ncftp-2.4.3
> > make: don't know how to make package-name. Stop 
>  - make -n README.html
>  - make package-depends PACKAGE_NAME_AS_LINK=YES 
>  - make depends-list PACKAGE_NAME_AS_LINK=YES 
> (the latter two are the only ones in bsd.pkg.mk that call 'make 
> package-name')
>  - env, and esp. check for things like MAKE 
>  
> BTW, what does "ident /n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk" and "md5 
> /n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk" say? (same for bsd.pkg.subdir.mk ...?)

I'm running my system on 1.3.1, obtained by getting the binaries for
1.3.1, and then the 1.3 system sources and the patch-file to build a 1.3.1
kernel. The /n/ file system is my previous NetBSD-1.3 OS.

Here are the things I've just checked:

$ ident /n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk
/n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk:
$NetBSD: bsd.pkg.mk,v 1.83 1998/05/14 11:53:30 agc Exp $

05:46:11/jim> md5 /n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk
MD5 (/n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk) = e47ef5d3aa87621b93409869100a45e9

05:46:42/jim> md5  /n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.subdir.mk
MD5 (/n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.subdir.mk) = 22f29558f56e7f295e27191fa24b2de4

05:46:54/jim> ident  /n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.subdir.mk
/n/usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.subdir.mk:
$NetBSD: bsd.pkg.subdir.mk,v 1.14 1998/05/15 12:14:24 agc Exp $

05:47:01/jim> echo $MAKE

05:47:36/jim> cd /n/usr/pkgsrc/net/ncftp2/
05:47:56/jim> make package-depends PACKAGE_NAME_AS_LINK=YES make: don't
know how to make package-name. Stop
*** Error code 2

Stop.
05:48:07/jim> make depends-list PACKAGE_NAME_AS_LINK=YES make: don't know
how to make package-name. Stop
*** Error code 2

Stop.

05:51:14/jim> hash
hits    command
1    /usr/local/bin/ident
4    /usr/bin/make
1    /usr/bin/env
3    /usr/bin/md5
05:51:15/jim> ident /usr/bin/make
/usr/bin/make:
$NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.28 1997/10/20 13:49:45 mycroft Exp $
[...]
$NetBSD: main.c,v 1.38 1997/09/28 03:31:07 lukem Exp $
[...]
$NetBSD: lstSucc.c,v 1.7 1997/09/28 03:31:35 lukem Exp $
05:51:41/jim> ls -l /usr/bin/make
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  94208 Apr  5 20:51 /usr/bin/make

Thanks for looking into this for me (Still puzzled).
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