Okay, so I applied the snapshot patches found on the ftp site (thanks
everyone!), and I still get this from "make build":

building shared c library (version 12.33)
ld -x -shared  -o libc.so.12.33    --whole-archive libc_pic.a --no-whole-archive   
ld: libc_pic.a(brk.so): relocation for internal symbol expected at 0x40
ld: libc_pic.a(sbrk.so): relocation for internal symbol expected at 0x38
ld: internal error: libc_pic.a(brk.so): claim_rrs_internal_gotslot at 0x40: no reservation
*** Error code 1

Any ideas?  I get this with both the 19981001 snapshot ld and the new
recompiled-with-patches ld.  (I made the mistake of doing a "make install"
inside of gnu/usr.bin/ld, and the ld.so that was installed ended up
breaking everything -- I assume that's not normal either? :-)).

--Ken