Yep - that was it.

So now, the instruction sequence seems to be:

0)  Get the -current sources

1)  Copy all the shared objects from /usr/lib to /emul/aout/usr/lib

2)  Boot from a kernel with EXEC_ELF, EXEC_AOUT, and COMPAT_AOUT all
    defined

3)  setenv DESTDIR /../.
    setenv OBJECT_FMT ELF

4)  cd /usr/src; make includes

5)  cd /usr/src/share/mk; make install

6)  setenv BOOTSTRAP_ELF 1

7)  cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin
    for i in binutils.* gas.new ld.new egcs/*; do
	(cd $i; make cleandir; make depend; make; \
	 setenv OBJECT_FMT a.out; make; setenv OBJECT_FMT ELF)
    done
    #	(expect the link in the first make to fail)

8)  for i in binutils gas.new ld.new egcs; do
    (cd $i, make install)

9)  cd /usr/src/libexec/ld.elf_so; 			<======new
    make cleandir; make depend; make; make install	<======new

10) cd /usr/src/lib/csu
    make cleandir; make depend; make; make install

11) cd /usr/src
    make build


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