diff -Naur gas-1.38_org/Makefile pou/gas-1.38/Makefile
--- gas-1.38_org/Makefile	1990-10-18 21:26:42.000000000 +0100
+++ pou/gas-1.38/Makefile	2006-12-10 14:39:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@
 # This makefile may be used to make the VAX, 68020, 80386, 
 # SPARC, ns32k, or i860 assembler(s).
 
-BINDIR = /usr/local/bin
-#CC=gcc
+#BINDIR = /usr/local/bin
+BINDIR = /prog/osdev/linux-0.01-upd3_b/binbuild/bin
+CC=gcc-2.95
 
 # If you are on a BSD system, un-comment the next two lines, and comment out
 # the lines for SystemV and HPUX below
diff -Naur gas-1.38_org/messages.c pou/gas-1.38/messages.c
--- gas-1.38_org/messages.c	1991-01-04 19:12:57.000000000 +0100
+++ pou/gas-1.38/messages.c	2006-12-08 23:50:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <perror.h>	/* Need this to make sys_errlist/sys_nerr right */
 #endif /* VMS */
 
+#include <errno.h>
 #include "as.h"
 
 #ifndef NO_VARARGS
@@ -54,11 +55,36 @@
 */
 
 
+
+
 /* Nonzero if we've hit a 'bad error', and should not write an obj file,
    and exit with a nonzero error code */
 
 int bad_error = 0;
 
+_doprnt(Format, a, f)
+char *Format;
+FILE *f;
+char **a;
+{
+	int Nargs = ((int *)a)[-2];	/* This understands as_fatal() */
+
+	switch(Nargs) {
+		default: fprintf(f,"_doprnt error on \"%s\"!!",Format); break;
+		case 1:  fprintf(f,Format); break;
+		case 2:  fprintf(f,Format,a[0]); break;
+		case 3:  fprintf(f,Format,a[0],a[1]); break;
+		case 4:  fprintf(f,Format,a[0],a[1],a[2]); break;
+		case 5:  fprintf(f,Format,a[0],a[1],a[2],a[3]); break;
+		case 6:  fprintf(f,Format,a[0],a[1],a[2],a[3],a[4]); break;
+		case 7:  fprintf(f,Format,a[0],a[1],a[2],a[3],a[4],a[5]); break;
+		case 8:  fprintf(f,Format,a[0],a[1],a[2],a[3],a[4],a[5],a[6]); break;
+		case 9:  fprintf(f,Format,a[0],a[1],a[2],a[3],a[4],a[5],a[6],a[7]); break;
+		case 10: fprintf(f,Format,a[0],a[1],a[2],a[3],a[4],a[5],a[6],a[7],a[8]); break;
+	}
+}
+
+
 
 /*
  *			a s _ p e r r o r
@@ -71,9 +97,6 @@
      char *	gripe;		/* Unpunctuated error theme. */
      char *	filename;
 {
-  extern int errno;		/* See perror(3) for details. */
-  extern int sys_nerr;
-  extern char * sys_errlist[];
 
   as_where();
   fprintf (stderr,gripe,filename);