binutils not installing ld and as

binutils not installing ld and as

[Graham Reitz]

After successfully building and installing binutils-2.27, ld and as are not in the install’s /bin directory.  

The configure script mentions finding ld and as on the host (Mac OS 10.12.2, latest).  Are they not being installed since the configure script found them on the host?

Configure:
CC=gcc-6.1.0 CXX=g++-6.1.0 ../binutils-2.27/configure --prefix=$GNUHOME/gcc-6.1.0 --with-gmp=$GNUHOME/gcc-6.1.0 --with-mpfr=$GNUHOME/gcc-6.1.0 --with-mpc=$GNUHOME/gcc-6.1.0 --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-isl=$GNUHOME/gcc-6.1.0

Kindly,
Graham

Re: binutils not installing ld and as

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Graham,

> After successfully building and installing binutils-2.27, ld and as are not in the install’s /bin directory.  
> 
> Are they not being installed since the configure script found them on the host?

No.  There are not built/installed because of the top level configure file.  Have
a search for "darwin" and you should eventually find an entry like this:

  x86_64-*-darwin[912]*)
    noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gas gprof"
    noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs sim target-rda"
 
So quite a few tools are not built for MAC OS based hosts.

Cheers
  Nick