When trying to build gcc-runtime_linaro-4.9.bb for qemuarm, I get the following error:
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[...]
| checking whether the arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc  -march=armv5te -marm -mthumb-interwork --sysroot=/mnt/work/setup-scripts/build/tmp-angstrom_v2014_06-eglibc/sysroots/qemuarm linker (arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-ld --sysroot=/mnt/work/setup-scripts/build/tmp-angstrom_v2014_06-eglibc/sysroots/qemuarm ) supports shared libraries... yes

| checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no

| checking dynamic linker characteristics... configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.

[...]
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The problem reared its head with 4.8 about a month ago, but I am not sure which update to my OE tree broke it.

Host is gentoo with profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome
(multilib) is enabled.

My gut feel is it is a host gcc problem?
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gcc -v

Using built-in specs.

COLLECT_GCC=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.7.3/gcc

COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/lto-wrapper

Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.7.3-r1/work/gcc-4.7.3/configure --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.7.3 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/include/g++-v4 --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/python --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-obsolete --enable-secureplt --disable-werror --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-checking=release --with-bugurl=https://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.7.3-r1 p1.4, pie-0.5.5' --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-multilib --with-multilib-list=m32,m64 --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --enable-targets=all --disable-libgcj --enable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-lto --without-cloog --without-ppl

Thread model: posix

gcc version 4.7.3 (Gentoo 4.7.3-r1 p1.4, pie-0.5.5)
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Non-linaro gcc-runtime-4.9.0.bb builds fine (as did 4.8).
Any help is appreciated.

--Tim