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Yes, egcs-1.0.3a has a habit of shifting to the HPUX /bin/as while building
objc on HPUX10.20, in spite of everything apparently being set up correctly.
If you insist on using 1.0.3a, and aren't using objc, you could just eliminate
that from the build, or prevail upon your sysadmin to replace /bin/as
temporarily with gnu as, or give up and build without --with-gnu-as.  There
must be something wrong with Makefile, at least as it gets configured.
However, egcs-1.0.3a is too buggy on HP to be worth a great deal of effort.  I
have been revisiting this problem just this week, as I volunteered to do
regression tests between egcs-1.0.3a, gcc-2.8.1/g77-0.5.23, and pre-release
snapshots of egcs-1.1.  I can say already that the current pre-release
snapshot egcs-19980727 is head and shoulders above earlier gnu compilers for
HPUX10.20. It does have one quirk on HPUX10: you must first install gnu m4 and
autoconf and always set the environment variable DEFAULT_M4 to your installed
gnu m4 before running configure.  But I'm no compiler expert, just an engineer
maintaining Fortran applications part time.