How to configure cross binutils in a sane state?

[David Miller]

From: Doug Semler <dougsemler@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:05:46 -0400

> My question really is, what is the purpose of the shared bfd/opcodes?
> It seems that with the instability of the interface and the fact that
> gas/ld/binutils are inextricably linked to the version of bfd at the
> time of the code snapshot it doesn't make much sense (and in fact you
> can see that with so name that is usesd)...plus, disk space is cheap -
> a stripped binutils on my machine takes about 8 megs per target.

Multiply this by however many packages that might have a similar
library situation as binutils and it adds up.