diff --git a/projects/gnu.org/gcc/package.yml b/projects/gnu.org/gcc/package.yml
index 448186d4..b8ce8650 100644
--- a/projects/gnu.org/gcc/package.yml
+++ b/projects/gnu.org/gcc/package.yml
@@ -59,11 +59,21 @@ build:
 
     # On Linux, we need to move the libraries to the lib directory.
     - run: |
-        if test {{hw.platform}} = "linux"; then
-          mv lib64/* lib/
-          rmdir lib64
-        fi
+        mv lib64/* lib/
+        rmdir lib64
+      if: linux
       working-directory: ${{prefix}}
+
+    # other tools simply expect these symlinks and often fail without them
+    # NOTE forcing symlinks because we build with ourselves and sometimes that
+    # means we're building with the exact same version FIXME
+    - run: |
+        ln -sf gcc cc
+        ln -sf gcc-ar ar
+        ln -sf gcc-nm nm
+        ln -sf gcc-ranlib ranlib
+      working-directory: ${{prefix}}/bin
+
   env:
     # Branch from the Darwin maintainer of GCC, with a few generic fixes and
     # Apple Silicon support, located at https://github.com/iains/gcc-12-branch
@@ -115,6 +125,8 @@ test:
   - test "$(./test3)" = "Hello, world!"
 
 provides:
+  - bin/ar
+  - bin/cc
   - bin/c++
   - bin/gc++
   - bin/cpp
@@ -128,3 +140,5 @@ provides:
   - bin/gcov-tool
   - bin/gfortran
   - bin/lto-dump
+  - bin/nm
+  - bin/ranlib
diff --git a/projects/llvm.org/package.yml b/projects/llvm.org/package.yml
index 271c7fd7..b1c1defc 100644
--- a/projects/llvm.org/package.yml
+++ b/projects/llvm.org/package.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ provides:
   - bin/lld
   - bin/clang
   - bin/clang++
+  - bin/cc
+  - bin/c++
+  - bin/cpp
+  - bin/ar
+  - bin/as
+  - bin/nm
+  - bin/objcopy
+  - bin/ranlib
+  - bin/readelf
+  - bin/strings
+  - bin/strip
 
 dependencies:
   zlib.net: 1
@@ -27,12 +38,26 @@ build:
     - run: |
         if test "{{hw.platform}}" = "linux" || \
            test "{{hw.arch}}" = "x86-64" || \
-           semverator satisies '>=14'; then
+           semverator satisfies '>=14' {{version}}; then
              ARGS="$ARGS -DLLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES='compiler-rt'"
         fi
+      # if: linux || x86-64 || >=14  ## Brewkit can't do this. Yet.
     - cmake ../llvm -G Ninja $ARGS
     - ninja
     - ninja install
+
+    # other tools simply expect these symlinks and often fail without them
+    # NOTE forcing symlinks because we build with ourselves and sometimes that
+    # means we're building with the exact same version FIXME
+    - run: |
+        ln -sf clang cc
+        ln -sf clang++ c++
+        ln -sf clang-cpp cpp
+        for x in ar as nm objcopy ranlib readelf strings strip; do
+          ln -sf llvm-$x $x
+        done
+      working-directory: ${{prefix}}/bin
+
   receipt:
     - LLVMConfig.cmake
   env:
@@ -90,9 +115,10 @@ test:
     - run: |
         if test "{{hw.platform}}" = "linux" || \
            test "{{hw.arch}}" = "x86-64" || \
-           semverator satisies '>=14'; then
+           semverator satisfies '>=14' {{version}}; then
              ARGS="$ARGS -fsanitize=address,undefined"
         fi
+      # if: linux || x86-64 || >=14  ## Brewkit can't do this. Yet.
     - mv $FIXTURE $FIXTURE.c
     - clang $ARGS $FIXTURE.c
     - ./a.out
diff --git a/projects/tea.xyz/gx/cc/cc.rb b/projects/tea.xyz/gx/cc/cc.rb
deleted file mode 100755
index 02d9fec8..00000000
--- a/projects/tea.xyz/gx/cc/cc.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/ruby
-
-# - we inject our rpath to ensure our libs our found
-# - for bottles we replace that in fix-machos.rb with a relocatable prefix
-# - in general usage we don’t, so if the user needs to distribute their artifacts,
-#   they will need to fix them first, but that's typical anyway.
-# - for tea-envs the user probably won’t use tea.xyz/gx/cc even though they *should*
-#   and thus we set LDFLAGS in the hope that they will be picked up and the rpath set
-
-$pkgx_prefix = ENV['PKGX_DIR'] || ENV['HOME'].chomp
-exe = File.basename($0)
-
-# remove duplicates since this in fact embeds the rpath multiple times
-# and omit -nodefaultrpaths since it is not a valid flag for clang
-args = ARGV.map do |arg|
-  arg unless arg == "-Wl,-rpath,#$pkgx_prefix" or arg == "-nodefaultrpaths"
-end.compact
-
-def is_tea? path
-  path = File.realpath path while File.symlink? path
-  return File.basename(path) == "tea"
-end
-
-# find next example of ourselves
-# this will either pick the Apple provided clang or the tea one
-exe_path = ENV['PATH'].split(":").filter { |path|
-  if path == File.dirname(__FILE__)
-    false
-  elsif path == File.join($pkgx_prefix, ".local/bin")
-    false
-  elsif is_tea?(path)
-    false
-  else
-    true
-  end
-}.map { |path|
-  "#{path}/#{exe}"
-}.reject { |path|
-  # if the user created a symlink of `cc` to `tea` don’t use it
-  File.symlink? path and File.basename(File.readlink(path)) == "tea"
-}.find { |path|
-  File.exist?(path)
-}
-
-abort "couldn’t find #{exe} in `PATH`" unless exe_path
-
-for arg in args do
-  # figuring out what “mode” we are operating in is hard
-  # we don’t want to add this linker command always because it causes a warning to be
-  # output if we are not outputing executables/dylibs and this warning can break
-  # configure scripts, however the below is not fully encompassing
-  # we aren't sure what the rules are TBH, possibly it is as simple as if the output (`-o`)
-  # is a .o then we don’t add the rpath
-  if arg.start_with? '-l' or arg.end_with? '.dylib'
-    exec exe_path, *args, "-Wl,-rpath,#$pkgx_prefix"
-  end
-end
-
-exec exe_path, *args
diff --git a/projects/tea.xyz/gx/cc/ld b/projects/tea.xyz/gx/cc/ld
deleted file mode 100755
index 55905946..00000000
--- a/projects/tea.xyz/gx/cc/ld
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -e
-
-if test -z "$PKGX_DIR"
-then
-  echo 'PKGX_DIR mysteriously unset' >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-DIR=$(dirname "$0")
-IFS=: read -r -a PATHS <<< "$PATH"
-
-__which() {
-  for dir in "${PATHS[@]}"; do
-    if test "$dir" == "$DIR"; then
-      :  # no fork bombs thanks
-    elif [ -L "$dir/$1" ]; then
-      # no fork bombs thanks
-      foo="$(realpath "$dir/$1")"
-      foo="$(basename "$foo")"
-      if [ "$foo" != "tea" ]; then
-        exe="$dir/$1"
-        return 0
-      fi
-    elif [ -x "$dir/$1" ]; then
-      exe="$dir/$1"
-      return 0
-    fi
-  done
-
-  return 1
-}
-
-# If we can find our specific name, e.g. `lld`,
-# passthrough to that
-# Otherwise, fallback to `ld`
-# NB: this might not have the right invocations, sometimes;
-# (invoking `ld` as `lld64.ld`) watch for those potential cases
-if __which "$(basename "$0")" || __which ld; then
-  :
-else
-  echo 'ld not found in PATH' >&2
-  exit 127
-fi
-
-# At a minimum, `ld` will complain if you mix the `-r` and `-rpath` flags,
-# so if any argument to this script is `-r`, we just pass through without
-# additions.
-for word in "$@"; do
-  if test "$word" = "-r"; then
-    exec "$exe" "$@"
-  fi
-done
-
-exec "$exe" "$@" -rpath "$PKGX_DIR"
diff --git a/projects/tea.xyz/gx/cc/package.yml b/projects/tea.xyz/gx/cc/package.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c64db64..00000000
--- a/projects/tea.xyz/gx/cc/package.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-distributable: ~
-
-# FIXME we want the c version eg. c99
-# or should that be some kind of option? so you specify you want a cc that support c99
-versions:
-  - 0.1.7
-
-dependencies:
-  linux:
-    llvm.org: '*'
-
-runtime:
-  env:
-    linux/x86-64:
-      LDFLAGS: $LDFLAGS -pie
-      CFLAGS: $CFLAGS -fPIC
-      CXXFLAGS: $CXXFLAGS -fPIC
-
-build:
-  working-directory:
-    ${{prefix}}/bin
-  script: |
-    if test {{ hw.platform }} = darwin; then
-      cp "$SRCROOT"/props/ld .
-      cp "$SRCROOT"/props/cc.rb cc
-    else
-      ln -s "$LLVM"/clang cc
-      ln -s "$LLVM"/lld ld
-      ln -s "$LLVM"/clang-cpp cpp
-      for x in ar as strip objcopy nm objdump ranlib readelf strings; do
-        ln -sf "$LLVM"/llvm-$x $x
-      done
-    fi
-
-    for x in clang gcc clang++ c++ g++; do
-      ln -s cc $x
-    done
-    for x in lld-link lld ld64.lld; do
-      ln -s ld $x
-    done
-
-    # dunno why we gotta do this, but we do
-    chmod 777 *
-  env:
-    LLVM: ../../../../../llvm.org/v*/bin
-
-test: |
-  cc --version
-  ld --help
-
-provides:
-  - bin/c++
-  - bin/cc
-  - bin/clang
-  - bin/clang++
-  - bin/g++
-  - bin/gcc
-  - bin/ld
-  - bin/ld64.lld
-  - bin/lld
-  - bin/lld-link