Booting with CC=/usr/bin/cc (because booting with a fresh gcc is broken), I get
cc -g -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -fno-common -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o cc1-dummy c-lang.o stub-objc.o attribs.o c-errors.o c-lex.o c-pragma.o c-decl.o c-typeck.o c-convert.o c-aux-info.o c-common.o c-opts.o c-format.o c-semantics.o c-incpath.o cppdefault.o c-ppoutput.o c-cppbuiltin.o prefix.o c-objc-common.o c-dump.o c-pch.o c-parser.o c-gimplify.o tree-mudflap.o c-pretty-print.o c-omp.o dummy-checksum.o \ main.o tree-browser.o libbackend.a ../libcpp/libcpp.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a ../libcpp/libcpp.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a libbackend.a(tree-ssa-loop-manip.o): In function `create_iv': ../../../gcc/trunk/gcc/tree-ssa-loop-manip.c:63: undefined reference to `add_referenced_var' libbackend.a(tree-ssa-loop-manip.o): In function `tree_unroll_loop': ../../../gcc/trunk/gcc/tree-ssa-loop-manip.c:919: undefined reference to `add_referenced_var' libbackend.a(tree-ssa-loop-im.o): In function `determine_invariantness_stmt': ../../../gcc/trunk/gcc/tree-ssa-loop-im.c:627: undefined reference to `add_referenced_var' libbackend.a(tree-tailcall.o): In function `adjust_accumulator_values': ../../../gcc/trunk/gcc/tree-tailcall.c:565: undefined reference to `add_referenced_var' libbackend.a(tree-tailcall.o): In function `adjust_return_value': ../../../gcc/trunk/gcc/tree-tailcall.c:644: undefined reference to `add_referenced_var' libbackend.a(tree-tailcall.o):../../../gcc/trunk/gcc/tree-tailcall.c:659: more undefined references to `add_referenced_var' follow collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [cc1-dummy] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ig25/gcc-bin/trunk/gcc' make[2]: *** [all-stage1-gcc] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ig25/gcc-bin/trunk' make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ig25/gcc-bin/trunk' make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 $ configure command was CC=cc ../../gcc/trunk/configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-languages=c,fortran cc is $ cc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i486-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f95,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.0 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-awt=gtk-default --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-mpfr --disable-werror --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.4 20060507 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.3-3) -- Summary: add_referenced_var missing on bootstrap Product: gcc Version: 4.2.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: blocker Priority: P3 Component: bootstrap AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: tkoenig at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27763