diff --git a/binutils.spec b/binutils.spec
index d03e4a2..100b010 100644
--- a/binutils.spec
+++ b/binutils.spec
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Name: %{?scl_prefix}binutils
 # The variable %%{source} (see below) should be set to indicate which of these
 # origins is being used.
 Version: 2.46
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND (GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Bison-exception-2.2) AND (LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND BSD-3-Clause AND GFDL-1.3-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later
 URL: https://sourceware.org/binutils
 
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ URL: https://sourceware.org/binutils
 # Bootstrapping: Set this to 1 to build the binutils with the system gcc.
 # Then once GTS-gcc is built and in the buildroot, reset this variable
 # to 0, bump the NVR and rebuild GTS-binutils.
-%define bootstrapping 1
+%define bootstrapping 0
 
 #----End of Configure Options------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -381,6 +381,11 @@ BuildRequires: autoconf, automake, perl, sed, coreutils, make
 # Bison is used to generate gold/yyscript.c and ld/ldgram.c.
 BuildRequires: bison
 
+%if ! %{bootstrapping}
+# Libatomic is automatically added to the link command line by GTS-gcc.
+BuildRequires: %{?scl_prefix}libatomic-devel
+%endif
+
 %if %{with clang}
 
 BuildRequires: clang compiler-rt
@@ -509,8 +514,13 @@ BuildRequires: libzstd-devel
 Requires:  (%{?scl_prefix}runtime >= %{gts_ver} with %{?scl_prefix}runtime < %{gts_next})
 %endif
 
+%if %{bootstrapping}
+%define alternatives_cmd     /usr/sbin/alternatives
+%define alternatives_cmdline %{alternatives_cmd}
+%else
 %define alternatives_cmd     %{!?scl:%{_sbindir}}%{?scl:%{_root_sbindir}}/alternatives
 %define alternatives_cmdline %{alternatives_cmd}%{?scl: --altdir %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives --admindir %{_scl_root}/var/lib/alternatives}
+%endif
 
 Requires(post):  %{alternatives_cmd}
 Requires(preun): %{alternatives_cmd}
@@ -1367,8 +1377,10 @@ done
 export QA_RPATHS=0x0003
 
 %if %have_scl_utils == 0
+%if ! %{bootstrapping}
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_scl_root}/etc/alternatives %{buildroot}%{_scl_root}/var/lib/alternatives
 %endif
+%endif
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -1533,9 +1545,11 @@ exit 0
 %endif
 
 %if %have_scl_utils == 0
+%if ! %{bootstrapping}
 %dir %{_scl_root}/etc/alternatives
 %dir %{_scl_root}/var/lib/alternatives
 %endif
+%endif
 
 #------------------------------------
 
@@ -1570,7 +1584,11 @@ exit 0
 %{_bindir}/gprofng-*
 %dir %{_libdir}/gprofng
 %{_libdir}/gprofng/*
+%if %{bootstrapping}
+/etc/gprofng.rc
+%else
 %{_scl_root}/etc/gprofng.rc
+%endif
 
 %if %{enable_shared}
 %{_libdir}/libgprofng.*
@@ -1617,6 +1635,9 @@ exit 0
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 %changelog
+* Thu Aug 06 2026 Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.46-2
+- Disable bootstrapping mode.  Add build requirement for libatomic-devel.  (RHEL-208909)
+
 * Thu Jun 17 2026 Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com> - 2.46-1
 - Initial commit on c9s.  (RHEL-170365)
 -    Resolves: RHEL-170365