At least it compiles!

I was able to build CDE on NetBSD 9.1 by following the instructions and then running:

LANG=C make -k World

 

 b/DtHelp /usr/pkg/bin/ksh93 ../../../programs/dtdocbook/doc2sdl/dtdocbook -t ../../../programs/dtdocbook/doc2sdl -H ../../../programs/dthelp/parser/pass2/htag2/dthelp_htag2 -I ../../../programs/dtdocbook/instant/instant -L ../../../programs/dtdocbook/xlate_locale/xlate_locale -S ../../../programs/nsgmls/nsgmls  -o ../help-sdl/Terminal.sdl Terminal/book.sgm
LANG=it_IT.ISO8859-1 SGML_SEARCH_PATH=".:.." LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib:/usr/pkg/lib:/usr/X11R7/lib DTLCXSEARCHPATH=../../../lib/DtHelp /usr/pkg/bin/ksh93 ../../../programs/dtdocbook/doc2sdl/dtdocbook -t ../../../programs/dtdocbook/doc2sdl -H ../../../programs/dthelp/parser/pass2/htag2/dthelp_htag2 -I ../../../programs/dtdocbook/instant/instant -L ../../../programs/dtdocbook/xlate_locale/xlate_locale -S ../../../programs/nsgmls/nsgmls  -o ../help-sdl/Textedit.sdl Textedit/book.sgm

Sat Feb  6 01:36:08 AKST 2021

Full build of Release 2.3.2b of CDE complete.

beasty21# cd ../..;pwd
/usr/local/src
beasty21# cd cdesktopenv-code/cde/admin/IntegTools/dbTools
beasty21# ./installcde -s /usr/local/src/cdesktopenv-code/cde