I've been requested to post a status list of the pending issues on the
toolchain.

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Tasks currently in work, which should show commits for fixes shortly:

 - Fix ld(1) rpath/rpath-link problem (pr 14114)

 - Fix DESTDIR tools/toolchain build botch (pr 14079)

 - Fix gdb.new build botch (current-users)

 - Fix xsrc not to use /usr/libexec/cpp (current-users)
   (partly done; need additional fix noted by veego for bootstrap imake)

 - Fix "make clean"/"make cleandir" breakage (pr 14112, current-users)

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Still pending on my personal to-do list, highest priority first:

 - Fix gcc/bfd/ld on alpha to use our current (historic) PLT format and
   nop/unop sequence properly

 - Fix system make parallelism (tech-toolchain)

 - Fix automatic kernel builds from "make release" on some platforms

 - Finish top level make(1) bootstrap for vendor makes or old NetBSD make(1)

 - Fix pathnames that are invalid on Winblows (Cygwin) hosts ("aux",
   "com1.c", etc.)

 - Create tools build procedure for other tools needed on non-NetBSD hosts
   (and verify buildability on Cygwin, Solaris/x86, and Linux)

 - Create somewhat better strategy for "cleandir" in tools

 - Open discussion on possible default, better handling of TOOLDIR

 - Find workaround for double math issues on sparc64 (pr 14095)

 - Port forward changes to gcc 3.0.x and gcc-current
   (may create cvs.netbsd.org CVS tree for collaborative merge work)

 - Submit patches for all active gcc branches to FSF

 - Investigate why the "new" nop/unop sequence on alpha gives us pipeline
   caching issues (this has been an issue since binutils 2.9.x)

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Lastly, the following tasks are important but are blocked because I'm
focusing on the issues above -- help would be appreciated:

 - Create cross capable mklocale (current-users, "LC_CTYPE not installed")

 - Fix ld.elf_so to work with newer MP-safe PLT format on alpha
   (and change gcc/bfd/ld to use it on systems that are capable)

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