Hi Andreas, your second suggestion for this bug ("gcc-3.3 on i386, mipsel and sparc is built against binutils 2.15 and will try to use --as-needed") is flawed, since this will break again with any binary NMU or other update for gcc-3.3.
The only real choices are: 1. update the dependency on binutils 2. hack gcc/configure.in to not define HAVE_LD_AS_NEEDED The preferred approach at least in the long term is definitely the first one. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed