Nevermind...tarball wasn't on ftp, but was via http.
It compiles and runs nicely on the Alpha :-) Very nice! I'll have to start using this one soon :-) I don't see anything wrong with it. It installed and purged very cleanly and seems to do everything it needs to (hell, the lintian report on it is better than the one on MY package....hehehe...but then again, binutils is quite a bit uglier than this to package). I say go ahead and upload it. It looks like a neat package. C