Note: the new bookmarks server tarball has a short program and instructions to test permissions on *BSD machines. Someone please give it a try.
I'm using NetBSD 1.6. First, some GNUisms: Autogen.sh starts '#!/bin/bash' when /bin/sh works just fine. Convert in the dpi tarball has the same problem. Also, Makefile.am uses the GNU-specific '--backups=t' option to install. A '-b' will make both GNU and BSD install make backups according to their default scheme. If simple backups are enough (why not?) then that's fine. Otherwise, you may have to resort to some configure trickery to decide whether to use '--backups=t' or '-b -B ".%d"' or some such. Other that that, it works great. The socket test gives 'Permission denied' like it should. Thanks for all your work! Micah