Problems with Mohans GCJ 20030522 build

Tue Jun 3 17:13:00 GMT 2003

Mohan Embar writes:
 > Hi People,
 > 
 > > > > Where is `as' installed on your system? It shouldn't be in gcc-3.3\bin.
 > > > 
 > > > Ummm...why do you say so? I've had binutils in the same "prefix"
 > > > as GCC for quite some time now and it hasn't given me any problems
 > > > as such.
 > >
 > >It's just weird, that's all. Unless you have a nonstandard `as', I'd
 > >expect to find it in the main bin directory. I'd also expect the
 > 
 > On Win32, Microsoft isn't bundling GNU binutils with the OS yet,
 > so I dumped binutils in with gcc so people didn't have to download
 > something extra. I have mixed feelings about this, though, as it makes
 > the download size bigger and makes it harder to mix and match.
I'd be inclined to put binutils in a different directory. But I
appreciate that you don't want to do anything that might dissuade
people.
Andrew.