build based on a binary only distribution

[Arno Wilhelm]

> I have a binary only distrubution of the gcc suite (binutils, newlib, gcc). I wan't to
> build the equal toolchain for an another platform. Can I do that with the help of the
> given binaries ? Can those binaries "say me" how they where built ?

That might help:

> gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
--disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
--host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1)


Arno