I am backtracking now and using 2.20.1 and see if this cures it...Build failed at the same point with the same error even when I used glibc-2.12.2 and binutils-2.20.1, so there must be something fundamentally wrong there and at present I have no idea what that is.Moving this conversation back to #crossgcc, as I believe the issue is with crosstool-ng.
Yes, apologies, I'll take the issues I have there!
