Hello!
Thanks for their responses go out to:
"Chewy":
Saying it installed fine at thei 5.0a machine,
but they had gnu make and gcc.
Alan Davis:
Who pointed me to the Written Word
:
ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/free/by-architecture/alpha-dec-osf4.0d
The v4.0x binaries should work without issue on v5.x.
If you want to build your own, mount the freeware cd and use the gcc
toolset
there to do the build.
Steven Michael Robbins:
(concering the file fnmatch.c in the diffutils)
There is a bug in this file, which I worked around in the following
manner:
make CFLAGS='-D_GNU_SOURCE -g' fnmatch.o
and then continue the build with "make".
I later discovered that 'cmp' blew chunks if not given any arguments; gdb
reveals that it segfaults in _doprnt, so edited config.h to not define
HAVE_DOPRNT, and recompiled. This may or may not apply to you.
I actually tried only this last help (fastest) which worked!
So rcs and our cvs-scripts also run now.
Thanks to all who spended their time
Harald
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