Installation question

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 09:07:37PM +0000, Gary Oblock via Binutils wrote:
> How do I go about installing binutils in my own directory
> instead of /usr/local and what do I need to do to get
> my compiler under development to use them.

If you want things to go as smoothly as possible, configure both gcc
and binutils with exactly the same --prefix specifying the root of
their installation tree.  Always configure from the top of the source
tree, ie. don't run ld/configure or gas/configure etc.  You may avoid
building gdb with --disable-gdb --disable-gdbserver --disable-sim
--disable-readline --disable-libdecnumber if using binutils-gdb git
sources.

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Alan Modra
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