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

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <9802091536.AA14953@band3.mc.vanderbilt.edu>you write:
  > I have had to remove egcs from my disk for now and can't easily try it out.
  > I noticed that the man page for "tr" has several examples which use
  > tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' (the config.guess script doesn't have the single quotes)
I thought about suggesting that, but then I started wandering through
old versions of config.guess and saw that in a similar situation it was
turned into a sed command instead of using the single quoted form.

jeff