On Wed, Jan 29, 2003, Michael van Elst wrote:
> [...]
> > And when should I use binutils (versus setting
> > -Dwith_binutils=no)? I am pretty sure I don't want the binutils under
> > solaris, right?
>
> In fact you only need binutils under Solaris, as far as supported platforms
> go. You do not strictly need binutils under Linux/FreeBSD because these
> systems already come with binutils-compatible tools.
We require binutils under Solaris and also on older Linux boxes which
have too old binutils installed. For instance on Debian 2.2 we require
binutils while on Debian 3.0 we could also use the system binutils. But
for consistency within OpenPKG we use binutils everywhere now. But if
people know what they are doing, they can build gcc with "with_binutils
no", of course.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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