From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, Jim Wilson Subject: Re: pre-build advice Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 23:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <16661.894780700@hurl.cygnus.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1998-05/msg00340.html In message < Pine.GSO.3.96.980509002350.4750B-100000@nashira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at >you write: > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Jim Wilson wrote: > > Build binutils. Build egcs. > > How _exactly_ should this been done? It depends, that's why you don't get exact recepies. For example even when using binutils you might not want --with-gnu-ld. You can also set up a "single tree" build environment which can be used to build egcs, gdb, binutils and other tools from a single source tree with a single "make" command. This kind of setup is easier for folks building cross compilers. > ---- first draft ---- > cd /source/tree/binutils > ./configure --prefix=/local/binaries > make; make install > cd /source/tree/egcs > ./configure --prefix=/local/binaries --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld > make bootstrap; make install > ---- first draft ---- Close. Probably the only thing I would suggest is build in a tree totally separate from your sources. > b) I believe it doesn't work under FreeBSD. It's possible. We haven't received a whole lot of feedback and contributions from the FreeBSD folks until fairly recently. jeff