>nm: sdbout.o: no name list.
>nm: xcoffout.o: no name list.
>nm: insn-attrtab.o: no name list.
>Segmentation fault - core dumped
>ar: no archive members specified.
>usage:  ar -d [-Tv] archive file ...
>	ar -m [-Tv] archive file ...

I didn't encounter this problem at all -- my tree is very new.
I would suggest that you install new versions of ar, nm, ranlib,
tsort, and lorder.

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