The trick was to recognise that the earlier problems were in the allocation of dynamic memory and to change to the somewhat unsatisfactory use of a fixed length of static memory. Other users have had success with moving binaries compiled under Digital Unix with static libraries. Brian Salter-Duke has found that exam08.inp and exam30.inp from the test directory do not work. Without it you do not get decent error messages. There is a useful summary of various e-mail messages on moving DU binaries to alpha linux by by Greg Lindahl.
Static memory involves declaring a fixed amount of memory in unport.src before compiling.
Its use essentially means you have link several different executables with different amounts of memory for different jobs. This is not simple as the flag -i8 which is all that is needed under Digital Unix does not work with g77. A new version of comp is now with Mike Schmidt and should appear in the public release of gamess. ALX' for activating the code in unport.src. This block after the related pc-linux block does the real work.