Re: !GNU, needs *2* binutils?

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Allan Clark wrote:
> Hi;
>
> It seems that for non-Linux (or would that be non-GNU?  Not the kernel) 
> OSes, such as MacOSX, it seems that teo binutils builds are needed:
>
> (MacOSX 10.3.9, crosstool-0.32, sleepy geek v1.1)
>
> On these non-GNU OSes, the "as" and "ld" are not GNU as and ld.  The 
> crosstool-built binutil of course is a cross (armv5b-softfloat-linux-ar, 
> etc) and includes no "as" binary... it builds only for the cross 
> target.  There is no "as" nor "ld" in the path that is acceptible to 
> glibc's ./configure...

Is this a real problem in practice?

> It seems that a simple way around this would be to "as --version || ld 
> --version || {build a binutils for the host}".
>
> Seem logical?  What's often the workaround for this?

The workaround is probably "install binutils from fink
(or from sources)", I suppose.  Does installing it from
fink work for you?
- Dan

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