From owner-freebsd-current  Mon Apr 21 12:20:46 1997
Return-Path: <owner-current>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08154
          for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:20:46 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08145
          for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:20:42 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.5/8.6.9) id FAA17199; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 05:19:51 +1000
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 05:19:51 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Message-Id: <199704211919.FAA17199@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!!
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, toor@dyson.iquest.net
Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

>> There is no need to build a new libc to build a new ld.  Bootstrap
>> using something like `cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld; make; su ...; make
>> install; exit'.
>
>You have the dependency order reversed.  There is a need to build a
>new ld to build a new libc.  There's a need for a full gcc tree to
>get a new ld.

No need.  A FreeBSD-2.0 gcc should work.  You could also delete all the
-O lines in bsd.lib.mk.  They are cosmetic.  (I happened to fix 3 of them
today.  2 were missing and one was broken.  The missing ones fouled up
my redundancy checks.  Fixing them didn't really change anything.)

Bruce