Can't install binutils from tarball. Apparently "VERSION" is defined in bfd module and then again in gprof module. If I try to disable building gprof module I get errors in prdbg.c. The VERSION defs are identical. Thought I could remember some option like "-fcommon" for the linker so I put that in LD_FLAGS but it didn't work, so I'm stuck at step 1.
I'd be grateful for any ideas.
I moved LD_FLAGS to LDFLAGS and -fcommon worked. Also I changed "return false" to 'return "\0" 'in 2 places: prdbg.c about line 2797 and objdump.c about line 4476.