Hi peter
downloaded the snapshot & cleaned out the old files
here's the minor bugs ran into:
1. using CFLAGS="O2" the compile crashed in the same place as the previous snapshot:
cc1 got fatal signal 6 [maths.o]Error1
while in the RTS subdirectory. compile ok without the CFLAGS
2. make looked for "ar" in wrong place: instead of /usr/bin looked at /usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar so put in a soft link to point to /usr/bin/ar and it worked
3. Didn't include --prefix=/usr/local so the install ended up in /usr/lib instead of /usr/local/lib moved i5* to /usr/local/lib/gcc*
4. either location gpc couldn't find the include files so moved /usr/local/lib/gcc*/i5*/2*/include/* to /usr/local/include and now works fine
hope this helps
thanks, Russ