underflows, overflows, ... [on Alphas]

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199809050802.JAA14313@phal.cygnus.co.uk >you write:
  > I didn't mean to imply that it works.
  > My point is that the framework for multilibbing is already there - we
  > multilib newlib and libstdc++ routinely.
Ah.  Yes.  We even multilib the chill runtime as of 10 minutes ago.

  > Thus, while it'll be undoubtedly require some work to make this work for
  > libf2c, it is not outside the architectural scope of egcs.
  > 
  > So whoever needs it should feel encouraged to make it happen ;-)
Yup.  It's actually not that bad.

You add a few lines of gunk to configure.in files so that it can
find the toplevel directory and to conditionally source config-ml.in
from the toplevel directory.

Then you wack on Makefile.in in the almost-obvious ways.  Took about
30 minutes for chill to get all the bits close enough to correct that
I can't see obvious problems when I build/install the chill runtime.

jeff