That's the one, there was an informative thread over at stackoverflow and askubuntu about it that's not immediately easy for me to link to here, but it's exactly the behavior I'm seeing but for different versions of gcc.

It was identified as a bug ...in what might actually be binutils from what I'm seeing now based on some really specific usage of ld (I guess)

I'll keep tinkering.  Thank for you the replies.  

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 3:08 PM Fredrik Rinnestam <fredrik@rinnestam.se> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:45:34PM -0400, Steve Volumetric wrote:
> Cool, thanks for that.
>
> I guess these patches have something to do with the crti.o error, I'm about
> to test them,  but why on earth is there such a long standing bug with gcc
> that's up to distro devs to patch?
>
> It looks like this bug goes back to v4 gcc days and people worked around it
> by changing the $PATH variable.
>

To be honest these patches only do cosmetic stuff. I've never come
across any problems with crti.o for as long as i've worked on the CRUX
toolchain. From what I can find with a search I assume its a problem of
crti.o missing during linking?

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Fredrik Rinnestam
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