Re: gas/gld installation during bootstrap -- how to unpack?

["Frederick W. Wheeler" <wheeler@ipl.rpi.edu>]

EGCS list,

I think my last question was too brief.  Here is a bit more
explanation of what I mean: 

To have "make bootstrap" build and use gas and gld, should the
binutils-2.9.1 top-level source directory be in the egcs-1.1a
directory or should certain sub-directories and files from
binutils-2.9.1 be placed in egcs-1.1a?

Thanks again for your time,
Fred Wheeler
wheeler@ipl.rpi.edu

I wrote:
> EGCS list,
> 
> I'd like to have "make bootstrap" build and use gas and gld, but I
> don't understand exactly what is meant by "if they have been properly
> unpacked into the egcs source tree" in the installation instructions I
> have quoted below.
> 
> Thank you,
> Fred Wheeler
> 
> From: http://egcs.cygnus.com/install/build.html
> > For a native build issue the command "make bootstrap". This will build
> > the entire egcs compiler system, which includes the following steps:
> > 
> >     Build host tools necessary to build the compiler such as texinfo,
> >     bison, gperf.
> > 
> >     Build target tools for use by the compiler such as gas, gld, and
> >     binutils if they have been properly unpacked into the egcs source
> >     tree.
> > 
> >     Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler.
> > 
> >     Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
> > 
> >     Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the
> >     previous step.