Re-installation of Binutils It's worth pointing out that the Binutils test suite we run in this section is considered not as important as the one we run in Chapter 6. Create a separate build directory again: mkdir ../binutils-build cd ../binutils-build Now prepare Binutils to be compiled: ../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \ --enable-shared --with-lib-path=/tools/lib The meaning of the new configure option: --with-lib-path=/tools/lib: This tells the configure script to specify the default library search path. We don't want the library search path to contain library directories from the host system. Before starting to build Binutils, remember to unset any environment variables that override the default optimization flags. Compile the package: make Test the results (there should be no unexpected failures here, expected failures are fine): make check Unfortunately, there is no easy way to view the test results summary like there was for the previous GCC package. However, if a failure occurs here, it should be easy to spot. The output shown will contain something like:

make[1]: *** [check-binutils] Error 2

And install the package: make install Now prepare Binutils for the re-adjusting of the toolchain in the next chapter: make -C ld clean make -C ld LIB_PATH=/usr/lib:/lib Do not yet remove the Binutils source and build directories. We'll need these directories again in the next chapter in the state they are in now.