On Mon, 04 Aug 1997 20:06:48 -0400 
 "Mark H. Levine" <yba@polytronics.com> wrote:

 > No matter what combination of source and assembler I try, nothing
 > seems to swallow __KERNEL_RCSID and __KERNEL_COPYRIGHT macros.
 > They seem to produce ".section ..." directives which GNU as reports
 > as unknown pseudo-ops.  If these are supposed to work, could someone
 > for whom they do work clue me in as to what I want to get (from current
 > and 1.2 release)?
 > 
 > Editing them out by hand is convenient, but somehow it feels so wrong :).

You need to update your toolchain.  Your best bet to update is probably
to install the latest Alpha binary snapshot, which can be found on
ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/

Ciao.

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