No libraries (.a) created during 64-bit build

[Michael Huber via binutils]

Know this has to be covered somewhere but, I can't seem to find it and 
this may be a GCC problem and not a binutils problem. I'm using a Red 
Hat 7 machine. After building binutils 2.32 (configure 
--prefix=/usr/local/be2/binutils-2.32), I attempt to build GCC using 
2.32. GCC 8.1.0 recognizes the configure options for AS and LD are 
recognized, but the compile uses the OS installed AS and LD.
configure --prefix=/usr/local/$BE/$pkg???????? \ ?????????????????????????????????? 
--enable-threads=posix???????????????????? \ ?????????????????????????????????? 
--with-gnu-as?????????????????????????????????????? \ ?????????????????????????????????? 
--with-as=/usr/local/be2/binutils-2.32/bin/as \ ?????????????????????????????????? 
--with-gnu-ld?????????????????????????????????????? \ ?????????????????????????????????? 
--with-ld=/usr/local/be2/binutils-2.32/bin/ld \ ?????????????????????????????????? 
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran \ ?????????????????????????????????? 
--enable-__cxa_at_exit???????????????????? \ ?????????????????????????????????? 
--disable-multilib???????????????????????????? \ ?????????????????????????????????? 
--with-pic???????????????????????????????????????????? \ ?????????????????????????????????? --without-isl No 
idea what I should be doing to resolve this issue.