All tools built from sources and used successfully for building other software.
gcc-3.4.2
bison-1.875
host binutils-2.14.90.0.4.1
glibc-2.3.3

Trying to build binutils-2.15.91.0.2 (similar problem noted but not reported
with 2.15.91.0.1) obtained from kernel.org. Fails on linking ar. binutils
was configured with --prefix but otherwise as adviced in INSTALL.

(snip)
gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2 -o ar arparse.o
arlex.o ar.o not-ranlib.o arsup.o rename.o binemul.o emul_vanilla.o bucomm.o
version.o filemode.o  ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a -ldl
ar.o(.text+0x1020): In function `main':
../../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/binutils/ar.c:342: multiple definition of `main'
arlex.o(.text+0x0):/s/build-binutils/binutils/arlex.c:1: first defined here
/apps/binutils/std/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `main' changed from 16 in
arlex.o to 3488 in ar.o
bucomm.o(.text+0xa06): In function `make_tempname':
../../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/binutils/bucomm.c:425: the use of `mktemp' is
dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
arparse.o(.text+0x39): In function `yyerror':
/s/build-binutils/binutils/../../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/binutils/arparse.y:201:
undefined reference to `linenumber'
arparse.o(.text+0x402): In function `yyparse':
/s/build-binutils/binutils/y.tab.c:1004: undefined reference to `yylex'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [ar] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/d/src/build-binutils/binutils'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/d/src/build-binutils/binutils'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/d/src/build-binutils/binutils'
make: *** [all-binutils] Error 2

--Sampo