Further Vexation: To insanity...

"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders" --Hal Abelson

Recursive dependencies due to automake
gcc > 2.7.2.3 needs patches made to 2.0.x kernels
uClibc does not (officially) support 2.0.x kernels underneath
gcc 2.95.3 expects glibc, or needs patches
busybox 1.1.3 'install' phase needs cpp >= 3.x
Non-i386 platforms often need specific binutils/gcc or patches
coreutils<=5.93 for gcc 2.95.3
gcc 2.95.3 misconfigures a "cross native" compiler :(
GNU 'make' has variety of behaviours wrt continuation lines