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Installing without binutils

Paulo J. Matos aka PDestroy pocm@rnl.ist.utl.pt
Thu Nov 29 01:40:00 GMT 2001 
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes:

> pocm@rnl.ist.utl.pt (Paulo J. Matos aka PDestroy) writes:
>


Hi,
 
> > I've RedHat 7.1 and I wanted to upgrade binutils without using
> > rpms so I decided to get the source, and I configured and
> > compiled. Everything ok...
> > The I didn't really know if binutils would overwrite my oldest
> > binutils so I removed the binutils rpm that I had installed since
> > my redhat 7.1 installation. After removing them I did make
> > install and I got an error. It was not able to find ranlib (a
> > binutil).
> > 
> > So, now my question is: Binutils are vital for everything to work
> > smoothly. I'm not glad about not having binutils installed. How
> > can I install binutils without really having binutils installed. 
> > I really only need a way to installed since it's already
> > configured and compiled.
> > Maybe I could get a rpm but that's my ultimate choice since I'm
> > trying to avoid rpms.
> 
> You can ignore errors from ranlib being missing during `make
> install'.

Install aborts... I can't just ignore.

> Or you can just stick ranlib somewhere on your PATH, run `make
> install', and then remove ranlib from whereever you put it assuming it
> is not where it was installed anyhow.

But where's ranlib?
Are you saying to, stick the ranlib I just compiled, make install
and then trash the ranlib I stick it somewhere?

> 
> Ian
> 


Good idea.

Best regards,

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