New patches from Ioannis E. VENETIS to allow building more up-to-date Alpha x-compilers.
Some patches are still missing, though.
See: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2008-06/msg00061.html

/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5.1/270-glibc-alpha-cfi.patch | 25 25 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5.1/280-glibc-alpha-sigsuspend.patch | 24 24 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5/270-glibc-alpha-cfi.patch | 25 25 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5/280-glibc-alpha-sigsuspend.patch | 24 24 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/linuxthreads-2.3.6/270-glibc-linuxthreads-alpha-cfi.patch | 25 25 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.2.0/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.2.1/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.3.0/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.2.2/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.3.1/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.2.3/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
11 files changed, 225 insertions(+)

diff -dur binutils-2.17.old/bfd/opncls.c binutils-2.17/bfd/opncls.c

--- binutils-2.17.old/bfd/opncls.c	2006-03-16 13:20:16.000000000 +0100

+++ binutils-2.17/bfd/opncls.c	2007-05-01 18:26:11.000000000 +0200

@@ -158,6 +158,13 @@

 {

   bfd *nbfd;

   const bfd_target *target_vec;

+  struct stat s;

+

+  if (stat (filename, &s) == 0)

+    if (S_ISDIR(s.st_mode)) {

+      bfd_set_error (bfd_error_file_not_recognized);

+      return NULL;

+    }

   nbfd = _bfd_new_bfd ();

   if (nbfd == NULL)