Todd Vierling said:

>I've fixed this by adding MKPIC=no to the old-toolchain build structure (I
>did this for libstdc++/libobjc/libg2c, but forgot it on libbfd.)

I added this to the libbfd Makefile, built a static libbfd.a, and linked
gas,new against that. Built a kernel, rebooted, and did a "make build".

The build was successful. Thanks.
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