Building on x86_64 Fedora 8

After making the changes to object/boot/configure (below) I was able to build 
the first idc.  Now the build fails with a "primitive error handling failed" 
idc error as shown here:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/karl/osrc/languages/COLA-idst/object/boot'
/bin/sh -ec '[ -d stage1 ] || mkdir stage1'
/bin/sh -ec 'for dir in id st80 idc; do ( echo $dir; cd $dir; make 
IDC="../boot/idc -B../boot/ -O" BIN="../stage1/" ); done'
id
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/karl/osrc/languages/COLA-idst/object/id'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/karl/osrc/languages/COLA-idst/object/id'
st80
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/karl/osrc/languages/COLA-idst/object/st80'
../boot/idc -B../boot/ -O  -k -c _object.st -o ../stage1/_object.o

primitive error handling failed (0x686d28 (nil))
make[2]: *** [../stage1/_object.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/karl/osrc/languages/COLA-idst/object/st80'
idc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/karl/osrc/languages/COLA-idst/object/idc'
../boot/idc -B../boot/ -O -I../st80 -k -c 
ArgumentVariableNode.st -o ../stage1/ArgumentVariableNode.o

primitive error handling failed (0x686d28 (nil))
make[2]: *** [../stage1/ArgumentVariableNode.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/karl/osrc/languages/COLA-idst/object/idc'
make[1]: *** [stage1] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/karl/osrc/languages/COLA-idst/object'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/karl/osrc/languages/COLA-idst/function'