In message <200108091008.f79A8qG05616@night-porter.duskware.de>, Martin Huseman
n writes:
>> You can't build a new kernel without a new gas, which requires "bfd.h", whic
>h
>> requires libbfd, which can't be used without a new linker, which can't be
>> built without libbfd.  What am I missing?

>cd /usr/src/gnu/lib/libbfd && make && make install
>cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas.new && make && make install

>P.S.: libbfd/Makefile handles both old and new toolchain

I ended up building a new "ld" (not ld.new), after which gas.new worked.
I'm still not sure why; "ld" was saying that libbfd.so was in an unknown
format... but it's past that, so I'm happy.  :)

-s