Netkit-base-0.17 needs the following to be installed:
sh rom the bash package
as rom the binutils package
ld rom the binutils package
strip rom the binutils package
cp rom the fileutils package
install from the fileutils package
rm rom the fileutils package
make rom the make package
cc rom the gcc package
sed rom the sed package
date from the sh-utils package
cat from the textutils package