'make check' hangs on binutils

[Vin Shelton <acs at alumni dot princeton dot edu>]

Since approximately 4/19, I've been unable to successfully run 'make check' on 
the CVS sources.  The check hangs in the ld testing, using either 
binutils-2.9.1.0.23 or binutils-2.9.1.0.24.

Perhaps I've always been doing something unsupported, but I used to get away
with it.  Let me describe my setup:

    linux-2.2.6-ac3 or linux-2.2.5-ac6 dual 686 processors
    ~/cvsroot/egcs contains the lates CVS sources
    ~/cvsroot/egcs/binutils is a symbolic link to
        /usr/local/src/binutils-2.9.1.0.xx

    mkdir /usr/local/src/egcs-1999mmdd
    cd /usr/local/src/egcs-1999mmdd
    ~/cvsroot/egcs/configure --prefix=/usr/local/egcs-1999mmdd
    make bootstrap
    make check

This used to work, but now 'make check' hangs while testing ld.
Is this setup legal?  If not, how should I bootstrap with fresh binutils?

I've deleted my recent working directories, but I can re-run a build if anyone 
needs more data.  At the moment, I've removed the symbolic link to
/usr/local/src/binutils-2.9.1.0.xx, and I can build and check egcs, but of 
course I'm not building a fresh binutils every time.

thanks,
  vin