Apparently the patches for gas and ld aren't needed on linux/i386....at
least not yet have they been a problem.

However I am getting those cc1 difficulties:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
../../../../kern/subr_prf.c: In function `panic':
../../../../kern/subr_prf.c:126: warning: unknown conversion type
character `:' in format
../../../../kern/subr_prf.c:126: warning: too many arguments for format
*** Error code 1

Stop.

For some bizarre reason, as close as I can tell, this is in the printf
call in panic whihc does some very strange formatting techniques.
I'm about to see if gcc 2.5.8 can handle this...then I go in search of an
old mirror with 2.6.3.  Onwards.....