diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc-static-4.1/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc-static-4.1/builder.sh
index 7e20fcebff6e..1d220df26aca 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc-static-4.1/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc-static-4.1/builder.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ if test "$noSysDirs" = "1"; then
 
     # Figure out what extra flags to pass to the gcc compilers being
     # generated to make sure that they use our glibc.
-    if test -n $glibc; then
+    if test -n "$glibc"; then
 
         # Ugh.  Copied from gcc-wrapper/builder.sh.  We can't just
         # source in $NIX_GCC/nix-support/add-flags, since that would
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ if test "$noSysDirs" = "1"; then
         # Need some more modularity there.
         extraCFlags="-B$glibc/lib -isystem $glibc/include"
         extraLDFlags="-B$glibc/lib -L$glibc/lib -Wl,-s \
-          -Wl,-dynamic-linker,$glibc/lib/ld-linux.so.2 -static"
+          -Wl,-dynamic-linker,$glibc/lib/ld-linux.so.2"
 
         # Oh, what a hack.  I should be shot for this.  In stage 1, we
         # should link against the previous GCC, but not afterwards.
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ if test "$noSysDirs" = "1"; then
         # that does not include Glibc's limits.h (notably missing
         # SSIZE_MAX, which breaks the build).
         export NIX_FIXINC_DUMMY=$glibc/include
+
+    else
+        extraCFlags="-isystem /usr/include"
+        extraLDFlags="-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib"
+        export NIX_FIXINC_DUMMY=/usr/include
     fi
 
     export NIX_EXTRA_CFLAGS=$extraCFlags
@@ -50,6 +55,9 @@ if test "$noSysDirs" = "1"; then
 fi
 
 
+export makeFlags="LDFLAGS=-static"
+
+
 preConfigure=preConfigure
 preConfigure() {
     
@@ -66,10 +74,9 @@ preConfigure() {
     mkdir ../build
     cd ../build
 
-    export LDFLFAGS="-static"
     configureScript=../$sourceRoot/configure
     configureFlags="--enable-languages=c --disable-libstdcxx-pch \
-        --disable-shared --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp"
+        --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp"
 }
 
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc-static-4.1/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc-static-4.1/default.nix
index 3415caa799ef..9ac6f89d10aa 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc-static-4.1/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/gcc-static-4.1/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl
 , langC ? true, langCC ? true, langF77 ? false
 , profiledCompiler ? false
-, glibc
 }:
 
 assert langC;
@@ -13,7 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/gcc-4.1.1.tar.bz2;
     md5 = "ad9f97a4d04982ccf4fd67cb464879f3";
   };
-  patches = [./pass-cxxcpp.patch ./no-sys-dirs.patch];
-  inherit langC langCC langF77 profiledCompiler glibc;
+  patches = [./no-sys-dirs.patch];
+  inherit langC langCC langF77 profiledCompiler;
   noSysDirs = 1;
+  glibc = if stdenv ? glibc then stdenv.glibc else null;
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/linux/bootstrap/x86_64/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/linux/bootstrap/x86_64/default.nix
index 88f0236d37a2..074a3313f5da 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/linux/bootstrap/x86_64/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/linux/bootstrap/x86_64/default.nix
@@ -7,21 +7,21 @@
 
   staticToolsURL = {
     url = file:///tmp/tarballs/static-tools.tar.bz2;
-    sha1 = "806f9644bf155069315bdd66138764b3d8619348";
+    sha1 = "4c72845335b373966341f1d4ca0b4b06904d1214";
   };
 
   binutilsURL = {
     url = file:///tmp/tarballs/binutils.tar.bz2;
-    sha1 = "b55055c50cfcd2ab02e20f49ad8ca72315252a1c";
+    sha1 = "5ad0bdf99a427ebb8e08ca90db952c3eeb5119a4";
   };
 
   gccURL = {
     url = file:///tmp/tarballs/gcc.tar.bz2;
-    sha1 = "a2ac17b6e7ce6d07c01e090b801c1622f56d8b39";
+    sha1 = "7398e021fdd5d7c4b5a3bb158db6e7573fc1dc0f";
   };
 
   glibcURL = {
     url = file:///tmp/tarballs/glibc.tar.bz2;
-    sha1 = "59d4d5a25ecd8b2f741d80e80d172bd6e7e06d89";
+    sha1 = "710b4a53425977858490f77188c7e2138b55a2dd";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix
index f154b395bbb7..c3c76a8e2555 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.nix
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ let
     binutils = pkgsDiet.binutils217;
    
     gcc = import ../../development/compilers/gcc-static-4.1 {
-      inherit (pkgs) fetchurl stdenv glibc;
+      inherit (pkgs) fetchurl stdenv;
       profiledCompiler = false;
       langCC = false;
     };
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.sh b/pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.sh
index 3b1ecbbceef4..7de85b724e21 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.sh
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/linux/make-bootstrap-tools.sh
@@ -84,9 +84,7 @@ chmod -R +w gcc
 nukeRefs gcc/libexec/gcc/*/*/cc1
 nukeRefs gcc/libexec/gcc/*/*/collect2
 rm -f gcc/lib/libmud* gcc/lib/libiberty* gcc/lib/libssp*
-if test -e gcc/lib/libgcc_s.so.1; then
-    nukeRefs gcc/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
-fi
+nukeRefs gcc/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
 rm -rf gcc/lib/gcc/*/*/install-tools
 rm -rf gcc/lib/gcc/*/*/include/root
 rm -rf gcc/lib/gcc/*/*/include/linux