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[Nick Clifton]

Hi Bill,

>     I've read over the docs in binutils-2.14 and still haven't quite learned
> how to generate a new assembler. I know CPU architecture files are needed
> for i386. But I keep geting errors in trying to compile.

The 2.14 sources include full support for the i386 part so you should 
not need to create any new architecture files.

> Can anyone give me any tips on how to compile these 2 packages for use by
> themselves? Ld and as?

You should be able to create these tools by following the notes in the 
top level README file of the binutils sources and also the README file 
in the binutils/ subdirectory.

Note - version 2.15 of the sources has just been released so you might 
want to download that tarball.

If you still have problems you can always post a more specific email to 
this list describing what you are doing and what is going wrong.

Cheers
   Nick