Problems building Binutils-2.25

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 11 June 2015 at 08:50, Ellis N. Thomas wrote:
>         Thanks again for your help - I will drop binutils, and use Apple's compilers
> to upgrade gcc from 4.7.2 (I want gnat, which Apple does not have).
>
>         Concerning my experience with binutils:
>
> 1)      It would have saved some time (yours and mine!) if the installation information
>         had provided some details of targets with known problems - gcc seems clearer
>         in this respect.
>
> 2)      The messages from configure could be better.  Not only did the warning appear
>         only in the output to standard output/error and not in the config.log it generated
>         (so would have scrolled off the screen unless they'd been redirected to a file),
>         but the message "This configuration is not supported" did not define what was
>         meant by "configuration".  In this case it is the combination of target machine
>         and OS version, but it might have meant inappropriate prerequisites like version
>         of gcc and other necessary software.

I agree, but you're not going to get any improvements to binutils by
pointing that out on this mailing list :-)

See https://sourceware.org/binutils/ for the relevant lists.