The egcs packages are used to build the libstdc++2.8 and libstdc++2.9packages and therefore are still in potato. For the release they have to be modified to build the runtime libraries only (if you want to step forward for this task, you are welcome).
It also needs to build some sort of c compiler for alpha, since gcc 2.95* cannot compile glibc on that architecture. Unless there is a fix in 2.95.2, which I doubt since I have seen it said that the root of the problem is too big to be addressed in a point release.
Also, there is not the possibility to build 'libstdc++2.8' or 'libstdc++2.9' on a glibc 2.1-based system due to ABI changes in libio.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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