egcs-19980727 build problems on Alpha

["Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp at MIT dot EDU>]

I tried building egcs-19980727 on an Alpha OSF 4.0d;
but didn't get very far.  The version of Gcc I'm using
for the build is egcs-1.0.3a .  The process I used
for installation is (where $FOO is an arbitrary
previously-empty directory):

1. ftp and untar the snapshop into $FOO/egcs-19980727
2. mkdir $FOO/build; cd $FOO/build
3. ../egcs-19980727/configure --with-stabs --prefix=$FOO  
4. make bootstrap-lean

The result was, apparently while trying to build texinfo:

  (... blah, blah, blah, building this and that...)

  make all-recursive
  No suffix list.
  Making all in intl
  Making all in lib
  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../egcs-19980727/texinfo/lib   -I..
-I../intl  -g
  -O2 -c ../../../egcs-19980727/texinfo/lib/getopt.c
  sh: .deps/getopt.P: cannot create
  *** Exit 1
  Stop.
  *** Exit 1
  Stop.
  *** Exit 1
  Stop.
  *** Exit 1
  Stop.
 
 
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= Reid M. Pinchback                                =
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