On 07/19/2012 01:28 PM, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
The ar, nm and ranlib prefixes look odd. These tools are part of binutils and configured/installed with binutils.
That surprised me too - as I was building from a clean gcc source directory (i.e.: without I added binutils - or whatever else - in the source tree).
If you think it's a bug you can open a problem report.
Done: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54030
You can post your patch to gcc-patches@ and discuss it there, and maybe it's a good idea to also CC one of the build machinery maintainers as listed in MAINTAINERS.
Done: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-07/msg00905.html - Sylvain