Well, I have finally built that annoying ld.  I restarted from scratch
this morning and documented all the steps (about 30) I took and what
happened.  I ended up with the same problem, but then I defined NetBSD
and didn't define CROSS_LINKER.  That did it.  I just compiled a few
test programs, and they worked perfectly.  gdb on my VS2000 also
understood all of the debugging information.

If anybody is interested in setting up cross compilation from Linux, I
think I could help.  

BTW.  Note that there are a few catches with cross compilation (eg. 
files created by running executables or machine-dependant scripts), but
I still think it is useful.  I don't know if it qualifies as cheating
though.  :-)

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|  Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>              |
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