On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Jim Wilson <jim.wil...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 07/14/2015 02:13 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> I was quite surprised for my gcc 4.9.3 build (using binutils 2.25 instead >> of 2.24 as I had in use with 4.9.2) to fail in rather obscure ways. > > in-tree/combined-tree builds aren't recommended anymore, and hence > aren't well maintained anymore. That is an anachronism from the old > Cygnus days. I still find it useful to drop newlib into gcc so it can > be built like the other gcc libs, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend > combining anything.
Combined tree is useful when the latest binutils is needed by GCC. -- H.J.
