Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:10:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806020110.VAA01942@delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <199806011756.AA099603783@typhoon.rose.hp.com> (message from Andrew Crabtree on Mon, 01 Jun 1998 10:56:23 PDT) Subject: Re: packaging of binutils Precedence: bulk Many makefiles in djgpp, and probably other places, rely on as and ld being in the path - they call them directly. Installing them heirarchically would break those Makefiles. I recommend leaving them in bin. *Cross* compilers should install heirarchically, so that they pick up the correct components.