egcs-1.0.1 incompatible with assembler on alpha-dec-osf1.3 ?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 9802041543.AA10641@band3.mc.vanderbilt.edu >you write:
  > I have discovered two problems in my attempts to compile egcs-1.0.1 for
  > alpha-dec-osf1.3 .  First, the script "config.guess" doesn't determine the
  > version number correctly.  This is because "tr" on my system chokes on
  > the arguments given to it.  The teeny patch (removing the brackets around
  > A-Z and a-z) that makes it work for me has been sent to egcs@cygnus.com .
Sounds like you've got a rather broken "tr".

Does it work if you change the "tr" to use sed instead?

  sed -e  y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/


jeff