> I and others have not been able to use GNU as and GNU ld to bootstrap > GCC. The resulting object files and shared objects mostly worked in > small experiments, but failed for larger projects, like GCC. > > Also, GNU as and GNU ld do not contain support for the new > cmodel=large and thread local storage support added to GCC.
Perfect, this gives me a better idea of what to ask for on Monday. I will see what the current status is. We do boostrap GCC, but I don't think we've tried with the current HEAD, only GCC 4.7. -- Joel