"likely use a gcc-3_3-branch compiler successfully" certainly perked
   my interest. Would you or someone else be so kind as to make a short
   outline of what I got to do to cvs or something a 3.3 for compile, and
   what's involved in making NetBSD makes and such happy for the gcc
   build?


% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/gcc login
<answer "anoncvs">
% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/gcc co -r gcc-3_3-branch gcc


see http://sources.redhat.com/



.mrg.