The following paragraph in the GCC installation guide (http://gcc.gnu.org/install/) seems a bit unclear to me: "If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler (bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, opcodes, ...) to the directory containing the GCC sources." What exactly is meant by "the same directory"? Say the GCC tarball is unpacked in the directory foo, yielding foo/gcc-3.x.x. Should binutils be unpacked in the same directory, so that you get foo/gcc-3.x.x foo/binutils-x.x , or in the gcc-3.x.x directory, so that you get foo/gcc-3.x.x/binutils-x.x , or into the gcc-3.x.x directory with one directory level stripped (e.g. with --strip-components 1 passed to tar), essentially "merging" the two packages in foo/gcc-3.x.x? Whatever turns out to be The Right Way, the doc really needs to be updated for clarity. Why would you want to build gcc and binutils together in this way by the way? Isn't it possible to install them separately? /Ulf Magnusson
