971114 snapshot fails to compile on alpha-dec-osf4.0

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 9711171927.AA08871@auriga.rose.brandeis.edu >you write:
  > 
  > After the stage1 compiler is built.....
  > 
  > Simply built as 
  > configure
  > make bootstrap
  > 
  > I suppose I am using the the vendor "as" - but I could not find anything
  > implying that gas was required....
There was a serious bug in the alpha support in 971114.  Try this patch

http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1997-Nov/0516.html