> > Basically, you need to FIRST build a new compiler and install it, THEN a 
> > make build.
> Which I cannot do, as this is sparc64. Apparently the mainline toolchain
> is not considered useful there (at least gnu/usr.bin/egcs/Makefile won't
> build any compiler components on sparc64). 

So, this one is easy. The format changes have not (yet) been rolled forward
to gcc 2.95.2 (which is used for sparc64). You have to do something lile

setenv NOGCCERROR 1

before starting the build (or "NOGCCERROR=1;export NOGCCERROR", if your shell
preferes that syntax).


Martin