It's compiled without problems for me on sparc(IPX) and P100.
I used shell script like this:

#! /bin/sh
#
echo configure --prefix=/usr/gnu
configure --prefix=/usr/gnu
echo make CFLAGS=" -O2"
make CFLAGS=" -O2"
#echo make install CFLAGS=" -O2"
#make install CFLAGS=" -O2"

The only pathes I made to allow display russian letters in log file are:

*** tex.web	Sun Jul  7 23:21:32 1996
--- tex.web.orig	Sat Jun 26 16:28:00 1993
***************
*** 1293,1297 ****
  
  @<Character |k| cannot be printed@>=
!   (k<" ")or((k>"~")and(k<@'260))or(k>@'357)
  
  @ When the \.{WEB} system program called \.{TANGLE} processes the \.{TEX.WEB}
--- 1293,1297 ----
  
  @<Character |k| cannot be printed@>=
!   (k<" ")or(k>"~")
  
  @ When the \.{WEB} system program called \.{TANGLE} processes the \.{TEX.WEB}


Anatoly