On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 14:10:20 and regarding: > >> Those packages are not essential to your system. binutils-uclibc and >> cross-arm-elf-binutils are primarily developer tools. >> > > Yes, > > I loaded them because there are a couple of apps that I want to try and cross > compile. I guess they are fine where they are, but shouldn't the install > packages have put them somewhere else? I don't think so. It's common practice to put cross compilation tools in non-standard places, so you don't accidentally end up compiling something on your x86 system for an arm processor.