The change to the alpha cdefs.h made most of the problems go away, but
now on linking:

cc  -static -o cat cat.o
getopt.o(.text+0x220): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GPREL16 __progname
_err.o(.text+0x34): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GPREL16 __progname
_err.o(.text+0x108): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GPREL16 __progname
_err.o(.text+0x1bc): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GPREL16 __progname
_err.o(.text+0x280): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GPREL16 __progname
*** Error code 1

Help?

	-- Todd