Hi Masahiro and ClangBuiltLinux folks, I am trying to use binaries from GNU/binutils v2.35.2 for my Linux-kernel builds. Background is I am doing some testing for BTF + pahole with GCC-10 and LLVM-12. I tried several strategies. [ STRATEGY #1 - Use a-local-binutils.conf LDCONFIG ] [ /etc/ld.so.conf.d/a-local-binutils.conf ] # Selfmade GNU/binutils lib configuration /opt/binutils/lib - EOT - sudo ldconfig sudo ldconfig -v -p ...shows me above lib path is in the ldconfig-cache. In my build-script I additionally add: BINUTILS_BIN_PATH="/opt/binutils/bin" if [ -d ${BINUTILS_BIN_PATH} ]; then export PATH="${BINUTILS_BIN_PATH}:${PATH}" fi That's NOT including ld.bfd from /opt/binutils/bin - not including nm, ar, strip etc. NOTE: Symlink: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 5. Feb 11:10 /opt/binutils -> binutils-2.35.2 [ STRATEGY #2 - Use LD_LIBRARY_PATH ] >From my build-script: BINUTILS_BIN_PATH="/opt/binutils/bin" BINUTILS_LIB_PATH="/opt/binutils/lib" if [ -d ${BINUTILS_BIN_PATH} ] && [ -d ${BINUTILS_LIB_PATH} ]; then export PATH="${BINUTILS_BIN_PATH}:${PATH}" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${BINUTILS_LIB_PATH}" fi That's not working either. New PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are set in the user's environment variables. [ STRATEGY #3 - Use which to get full path to binary ] ### GCC version settings GCC_MAJOR_VER="10" ### Compiler options CC_FOR_BUILD="clang" CXX_FOR_BUILD="clang++" ### Linker options ##LD_FOR_BUILD="ld.bfd" LD_FOR_BUILD=$(which ld.bfd) ### GNU tools options # NOTE: Selfmade GNU AS v2.35.2 needs to be symlinked in /usr/bin directory # XXX: Symlink: /usr/bin/as -> /opt/binutils-2.35.2/bin/as HOSTAR_FOR_BUILD=$(which ar) AR_FOR_BUILD=$(which ar) NM_FOR_BUILD=$(which nm) STRIP_FOR_BUILD=$(which strip) OBJCOPY_FOR_BUILD=$(which objcopy) OBJDUMP_FOR_BUILD=$(which objdump) READELF_FOR_BUILD=$(which readelf) GNU_TOOLS_OPTS="HOSTCC=${CC_FOR_BUILD} HOSTCXX=${CXX_FOR_BUILD} HOSTLD=${LD_FOR_BUILD} HOSTAR=${HOSTAR_FOR_BUILD}" GNU_TOOLS_OPTS="$GNU_TOOLS_OPTS CC=${CC_FOR_BUILD} LD=${LD_FOR_BUILD} AR=${AR_FOR_BUILD} NM=${NM_FOR_BUILD} STRIP=${STRIP_FOR_BUILD}" GNU_TOOLS_OPTS="$GNU_TOOLS_OPTS OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY_FOR_BUILD} OBJDUMP=${OBJDUMP_FOR_BUILD} READELF=${READELF_FOR_BUILD}" That works - means passes all binaries from GNU binutils v2.35.2 to my make-line. Please NOTE that I had to symlink GNU AS v2.35.2 as I saw too late I was using Debian's GNU AS v2.35.1 within my last builds. AFAICS there is no more AS= assignment in the top-level Makefile. How can I say: "Please use a different ASsembler?" [ LDD ] When I inspect with ldd (here: GNU AS v2.35.2): # ldd /opt/binutils/bin/as linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc7f4d6000) libopcodes-2.35.2.so => /opt/binutils-2.35.2/lib/libopcodes-2.35.2.so (0x00007f11f3bcc000) libbfd-2.35.2.so => /opt/binutils-2.35.2/lib/libbfd-2.35.2.so (0x00007f11f3a8b000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f11f3a44000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f11f387f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f11f3879000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f11f3de3000) So GNU AS v2.35.2 is loading from the correct places. Is the symlink in /opt directory a problem? binutils -> binutils-2.35.2 Can someone comment and give me a hint? Thanks in advance. Regards, - Sedat -