971023 fails to build

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 345877E1.9634D00D@cogency.co.uk >you write:
  > in  /home/dg/egcs/egcs-971023/libraries/libio/filedoalloc.c
  > gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I.  filedoalloc.c
  > In file included from libio.h:30,
  >                  from iolibio.h:1,
  >                  from libioP.h:36,
  >                  from filedoalloc.c:48:
  > _G_config.h:19: parse error before `__extension__'
Sounds like you didn't use "make bootstrap" -- that is the correct
target to use (yes, it needs to be documented).

jeff