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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> I was able to natively build bootstrap tarballs on the Novena.  However,
> the compiler in these new bootstrap tarballs is broken.  The problem is
> that the new compiler driver (gcc) passes -lgcc_s when linking, but
> libgcc_s.so does not exist in the gcc bootstrap tarball.

[...]

> It turns out that the "-lgcc_s" above was added just a few days after
> we generated our last set of bootstrap tarballs, in commit a7bf595ff.
>
> I guess that ever since that commit, any natively-built bootstrap
> tarballs we generated for any platform would have created a broken
> compiler, and that this is the first time we've tried since then.
>
> Any suggestions on how best to fix this?  My first crude idea is to
> simply remove the "-lgcc_s" from %gcc-static.

For now, this is the approach I took, in commit 5336e4c74.

      Mark