On 11 June 2015 at 08:50, Ellis N. Thomas wrote: > Thanks again for your help - I will drop binutils, and use Apple's compilers > to upgrade gcc from 4.7.2 (I want gnat, which Apple does not have). > > Concerning my experience with binutils: > > 1) It would have saved some time (yours and mine!) if the installation information > had provided some details of targets with known problems - gcc seems clearer > in this respect. > > 2) The messages from configure could be better. Not only did the warning appear > only in the output to standard output/error and not in the config.log it generated > (so would have scrolled off the screen unless they'd been redirected to a file), > but the message "This configuration is not supported" did not define what was > meant by "configuration". In this case it is the combination of target machine > and OS version, but it might have meant inappropriate prerequisites like version > of gcc and other necessary software. I agree, but you're not going to get any improvements to binutils by pointing that out on this mailing list :-) See https://sourceware.org/binutils/ for the relevant lists.
