arpit jain wrote: > Myself Arpit nd I had tried build > process of gcc cross compiler for intel I960.I am > triying to build gcc-4.1.0 for Ada language and i have > successfully build it as a native compiler.Now i am > trying to build it as a cross compiler for Intel I960 > target.My host is i686-linux. > I tried building it ur way by giving i960-unknown-coff > as target but it shows some error as > "i960-unknown-coff" not supported. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html#obsolete_systems Support for the i960 was marked obsolete in the 3.4 branch and discontinued thereafter. This means it does not exist in any 4.x or later version, and 3.4.6 is the last version to contain it. > Can anyone please tell me: > > 1. Is it necessary to build binutils and what role > they play in building? Binutils contains the GNU assembler, GNU linker, and a number of other support utilities. Without an assembler and linker, a compiler is useless. After all, gcc is just a text processor, its only function is to read source code and output assembly code. So an assembler and linker are not optional. This usually means binutils is required, but in some cases the system/vender tools can be used, i.e. on a unix platform that has an existing assembler and linker provided by the operating system. Brian
