diff -r 21b8b46b67f2 libgo/Makefile.am
--- a/libgo/Makefile.am	Tue Oct 28 15:56:23 2014 -0700
+++ b/libgo/Makefile.am	Mon Nov 03 08:29:13 2014 -0800
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 SUBDIRS = ${subdirs}
 
-gcc_version := $(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/../gcc/BASE-VER)
+gcc_version := $(shell $(GOC) -dumpversion)
 
 MAINT_CHARSET = latin1