On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Uri Moszkowicz <uri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm having trouble building GCC. I've decompressed GCC 4.7.2 source > into a directory and binutils 2.21.1 into a directory in parallel with > symbolic links to all subdirectories. I ran the contrib script to get > all other dependencies and then ran GCC's configure in a parallel > directory, following all installation instructions. It builds just > fine but when I install it AR seems to be missing. Any idea what > happened to it and how to get it? > > Looks like it's supposed to be built with binutils and I'm getting > other tools from it like LD just not that one. There is a program > called gcc-ar that seems to exist but not sure if it's the same tool? > It may appear if I build binutils by itself but I'm trying to build > them together so that I can get -flto optimization to work, as > apparently GCC balks at using the linker plugin if they weren't built > together. Tell us exactly how you ran configure. It's not clear from the above: did you build the binutils also, or did you only build GCC? Ian
