Recent seems to have broken toolchain

[Ed Maste]

On 30 May 2016 at 15:51, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> It happens with both /usr/bin/ld and /usr/local/bin/ld.  I remove the
> binutils port and still had the issue.  I tried reverting recent changes
> to elftoolchain/libelftc, the resulting tree would not build.

The elftoolchain changes are a good candidate to check, although they
should have no impact at all on the linker.

What error did you encounter when trying to build with them reverted?