Hello,

> I'm building from the analog sources directly from www.analog.cx.  This
> is habit for me, as I've done for years.
Why don't you try building it from pkgsrc?

> I'm looking for a way forward, and hoping that there are plans to upgrade
> the compiler.  I realize that the 2.95.x gcc is "cursed", but I can ask, no?
I doubt it's a compiler problem, although I've never tried to compile analog with anything older than gcc 3.2... the bundled gd seems to be sort of weird though.

have fun
Michael