Porting to PowerMax

[Bates, Rod]

In porting egcs to an architecture which doesn't configure
out of the box (Concurrent PowerMax, powerpc),
I get in this dilemma: 

Trying to configure egcs 1.1.2 alone, the native as chokes on
.stabs, which are apparently produced by xxgcc in earlier
steps.  

Building and installing binutils 2.9.1, to get gas, and
reconfiguring using --with-gnu-as and --with-gnu-ld
fails even earlier, because the native cc, used on
e.g. ./texinfo/lib/getopt.c, produces .o files which
gnu ld, nm, and objdump don't recognize.  

According to the documentation, this os's native
tools use elf, which is what I specified to configure.