RE: Problems building an ARM development environment

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Godbolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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 Matt> This happened to me when following PhilB's instructions :

 Matt> What happened to me was that I had compiled and installed
 Matt> binutils with the suggested ./configure linux-arm --prefix=/usr

 Matt> Unfortunately, as well as installing the linker et al in
 Matt> /usr/arm-linux/bin, they are also linked as /usr/bin/* -
 Matt> overwriting the previous linker.

I think that --prefix=/usr is a very bad idea.  There are good reasons 
why it's not the default and I would hesitate long and hard before
doing what you described.  Certainly, for that to be recommended
without a long list of warnings seems wrong.

        paul
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