🚀 go-pugleaf

I cannot seem to install gcc 2.6.2 on IRIX 5.1.1.3.   I am trying
to build a version of gcc that supports debugging with gdb in
the stabs debugging format, which I had managed to get working
with gcc 2.6.0 with the configure options:

./configure --with-gnu-as --with-stabs

I have installed GAS 2.31, patched as per the README.IRIX5 file
included with 2.6.0.  This arrangement worked fine with
2.6.0.

But now I cannot build gcc 2.6.2.  I used the same options,
and now I get the following error messages when it first invokes
the newly-built "xgcc":

        ./xgcc -B./  -DIN_GCC   -g -O -I./include    -DNO_MEM -DNO_LONG_DOUBLE_IO -O0 -I. -c ./enquire.c
A
In file included from ./enquire.c:402:
/usr/include/signal.h:83: warning: useless keyword or type name in empty declaration
/usr/include/signal.h:84: warning: useless keyword or type name in empty declaration
./enquire.c: In function `cprop':
./enquire.c:1382: warning: comparison is always 0 due to limited range of data type
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s: Assembler messages:
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21930: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21931: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21932: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21933: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21934: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21935: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21936: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21937: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21938: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21939: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21940: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21941: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
/var/tmp/cca007DR.s:21942: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `.'.
*** Error code 1 (bu21)

make: fatal error.

Why?  Perhaps I should get the new version of GAS?
Note that the same thing happens whether I build gcc-2.6.2 with
gcc-2.6.0 or with SGI's cc.

Gordon