Comments on: Stupid error building binutils

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:44:12 +0000

In reply to Samuel Dionne-Riel. Ok, now that makes a heck of a lot more sense!

By: Samuel Dionne-Riel

Samuel Dionne-Riel — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 01:06:31 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Well, I brainfarted when I wrote the post and wrote gcc instead of binutils, but I had this same exact issue when compiling a toolchain. By using apt-get build-dep binutils I have the following output: The following NEW packages will be installed: autoconf bison dejagnu diffstat expect flex libbison-dev quilt tcl8.5 texinfo zlib1g-dev I had to include "deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free" in my sources.list before, though.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:58:39 +0000

In reply to Samuel Dionne-Riel. It doesn't help me at all, but I guess it may help others. When you are building non-trunk tools well you still have to compile them.

By: Samuel Dionne-Riel

Samuel Dionne-Riel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:43:32 +0000

In case you didn’t know, you can install everything needed to build a package when you have the source repos enabled by using apt-get build-dep . In this case, you could have apt-get build-dep gcc and it would have installed everything needed to build gcc (according the source package of gcc from debian).

Relevant informations from debian’s wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial#Get_the_build_dependencies