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Hi, 
  I'm trying to build version 2.6.3 of Gnu C++ on HP Unix (an HP 9000/715).
This machine does not have any previous version of the Gnu compiler installed.
When I initially tried to build stage 1 of the compiler, the makefile attempted
to execute `gperf'. It failed a there was no such program on my machine. I found
gperf in libg++ and attempted to build this with the HP C++ compiler (I don't
seem to be able to get a version number out of this). This generated so many
errors that I thought it might be easier to use the portable, C version of
gperf. I obtained `cperf' version 2.1 and attempted to build this. This failed to
link due to unknown symbols alloca, random and srandom. I can presumably use the
gnu alloca.c and link this in to provide alloca, but random and srandom don't
seem to be supported on this machine. I tried doing a straight substitution for
rand and srand ( I don't know if these are supposed to work the same?) but the generated
executable just core-dumps as soon as I run it.

I don't know what I should try next. Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks,