Trouble building AR

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Uri Moszkowicz <uri@4refs.com> wrote:

> I'm having trouble building GCC. I've decompressed GCC 4.7.2 source
> into a directory and binutils 2.21.1 into a directory in parallel with
> symbolic links to all subdirectories. I ran the contrib script to get
> all other dependencies and then ran GCC's configure in a parallel
> directory, following all installation instructions. It builds just
> fine but when I install it AR seems to be missing. Any idea what
> happened to it and how to get it?
>
> Looks like it's supposed to be built with binutils and I'm getting
> other tools from it like LD just not that one. There is a program
> called gcc-ar that seems to exist but not sure if it's the same tool?
> It may appear if I build binutils by itself but I'm trying to build
> them together so that I can get -flto optimization to work, as
> apparently GCC balks at using the linker plugin if they weren't built
> together.

Tell us exactly how you ran configure.

It's not clear from the above: did you build the binutils also, or did
you only build GCC?

Ian