building zlib on the Ultra

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

Yet another data point in the source dependency saga.

zlib1g requires altgcc in order to build.

altgcc can not be built on the Ultra, and provides the following:

   This appears to be a sparc64-unknown-linux system.
   Configuration sparc64-unknown-linux not supported
   make: *** [build] Error 1

While I understand the error, I don't understand why a critical library
for xfree86 (and therefore indirectly for packages like tetex-bin, which
need xlib6g in order to build), still requires an ancient compiler. Is
there some pressing reason that it can't be built with one or the other of
the up-to-date compilers the rest of the distribution is using?

Any hints appreciated,

Dwarf
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