building binutils from same directory as gcc

[Mike Stump]

On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 01:51 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> Why not just declare
>> that building from the same directory is not support and have one
>> simple set of instructions that always works, as opposed to "this
>> ought to work with snapshots but not with direct checkouts"?
> 
> That's right.  Is there ever any advantage to building in-srcdir?

Yes.  You can do configure && make && make install.