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 Folks,

   I'm trying to build a bunch of the GNU packages for evaluation
in our shop, where we are running mostly DEC Alphas with OSF3.0 or
3.2.  I've managed to compile gcc, but a lot of the other packages
we're interested in, such as cfengine, are expecting other things
to be installed.  For instance, cfengine is looking for a library
libfl.a, which I can only assume is in the glibc distribution.
However, I can't get glibc1.0.9 to build on our system, being
told that it doesn't support alpha-dec-osf3.0.  When I lie to
it and tell it that I'm compiling under alpha-dec-osf1, I can
get a makefile put together but it fails immediately when I try
to actually do the make, saying that files like sysdep.d, start.d,
munch-init.d, etc., don't exist and then awk chokes on a parse of
some sort of ioctl configuration file.  Bleah.  So, the question
is: has anyone done a port of glibc1.0.9 to OSF3.0 or OSF3.2 on
the DEC Alpha workstations?  Searching the web with webcrawler
and metacrawler and many hours' reading hasn't turned up any
information of use.  I may have to give up and do the port myself,
but I can't believe it hasn't already been done by *someone*.  I
can be reached by email as wiggs@deets.chem.washington.edu or as
u9413@sdsc.edu, or you can follow up here.  I'll monitor the group
for a few days.

thanks,
Jim Wiggs