On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:16:47 -0700 Matt Turner wrote: > Thanks for looking into this! > > I'm not sure I understand the -nostdlib portion. It's something about > working around a side-effect of -x assembler? It's not related to that option. I think it's because this is normally built with "as" and "ld" and by using "gcc" instead, it tries to link libc and friends, which otherwise wouldn't happen. It'll fail if you take it away and you'll find the error if you dig through tons of strace. Strangely you don't see the linking command in the regular build output. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer