When building binutils (or just the "all-gas" target) checked out from Git, I get the following errors. I'm building with gmake (GNU make 4.1) on NetBSD/i386 6.1.5. gcc: unrecognized option '-static-libstdc++' ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a(bfd.o): In function `bfd_errmsg': /net/u/6/s/sfisher/binutils-gdb/bfd/bfd.c:557: undefined reference to `dgettext' /net/u/6/s/sfisher/binutils-gdb/bfd/bfd.c:543: undefined reference to `dgettext' ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a(bfd.o): In function `bfd_assert': /net/u/6/s/sfisher/binutils-gdb/bfd/bfd.c:1081: undefined reference to `dgettext' ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a(bfd.o): In function `_bfd_abort': /net/u/6/s/sfisher/binutils-gdb/bfd/bfd.c:1093: undefined reference to `dgettext' /net/u/6/s/sfisher/binutils-gdb/bfd/bfd.c:1099: undefined reference to `dgettext' ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a(bfd.o):/net/u/6/s/sfisher/binutils-gdb/bfd/bfd.c:1097: more undefined references to `dgettext' follow Makefile:769: recipe for target 'as-new' failed
Passing --disable-nls to the top-level configure script does allow the build to finish. I wouldn't expect a problem though because this host does have dgettext according to the man pages.