Perfect, this is definitely what I should have been doing. I was advised elsewhere to go for the combined builds but this sequence is much better. Thanks D On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25 April 2014 04:33, Dave Gittins wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Recently I managed to build gcc 4.4.0 and 4.4.7 with binutils included >> (with some help here). >> >> Now I am trying to build gcc 4.5.4 and 4.6.4, with binutils. I keep >> getting an error: >> libtool: Version mismatch error. This is libtool 2.2.7a, but the >> libtool: definition of this LT_INIT comes from libtool 2.2.6. >> >> Here is the process I am going through: >> Untar gcc-4.5.4 source to gcc-4.5.4-src >> Copy the binutils 2.20.1a source into the same src dir but don't >> replace existing files > > I think doing combined tree builds (with binutils and GCC in the same > source tree) is only guaranteed to work with the top-of-tree versions > of each, otherwise various configury files don't match. > > The simplest way I know to achieve what you seem to want is to install > binutils first, separately, to $PREFIX, then configure and install GCC > to the same $PREFIX. During its configuration GCC will notice that > binutils is installed in its final destination and will be configured > to automatically use $PREFIX/bin/as and $PREFIX/bin/ld rather than the > usual versions in your $PATH.
