Recipe for compiling binutils & gcc together?

Question

According the the gcc build instructions you can build binutils concurrently with building gcc (as well as gmp,mpc,etc).

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Answer 1

I always build everything separately. After you've built and installed binutils, gcc should build fine as long as you give each configure script the same --target and --prefix options:

binutils:

$ ./configure --target=XYZ --prefix=/abc/def
$ make all install

then add the path (if necessary):

$ export PATH="$PATH:/abc/def/bin"

and build gcc:

$ ./configure --target=XYZ --prefix=/abc/def
$ make all-gcc install-gcc

Then build your libc and the rest of gcc if necessary (maybe a debugger, too!).