> > apparently I had a modified (!) binutils/arparse.c file in my tree =
(I
> > don't know why; I've not modified it intentionally).  Fixing that
> > fixed this problem.
>
> It isn't that...

Yah, you're right -- the modified file was coincidental, and I did a
"make cleandir" before trying again which apparently worked around the
problem.

Regards,

- H=E5vard