Needed help to resolve Binutils Build problem

[Jeff Law]

On 05/20/2016 01:44 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 20 May 2016 at 07:49, promila.jangra wrote:
>> Hello Sir/Mam
>>
>> I am trying to install binutils-2.24 on Debian 8.4 to build gcc cross-compiler for
>> powerpc-linux.
>
> Binutils is not part of GCC, so you should have asked on the binutils
> mailing list instead.
>
> If you configure with --disable-werror then that diagnostic will only
> be a warning, not an error.
Right.

This kind of issue comes up commonly when trying to build older code 
with newer compilers.  I've long held the opinion that -Werror, while 
good for development is wrong for releases.

jeff