This leads to the question of keeping pmake in sync with the source version that it's meant to build. Perhaps I need to do a pmake-<version> instead, make it conflict with pmake, and figure out how to do it saner, later...
hmmm look for simon gerraty's autoconfistcated pmake -- it's based on netbsd's these days and is kept fairly current... umm ftp.quick.com.au? i forget.