Can't bootstrap BINUTILS on SCO 5.0.6

[Steve Manning]

I'm trying to bootstrap a GCC development environment on a bare SCO
OpenServer 5.0.6 system.

I've installed the Application Development Libraries and Linker from
the distribution media, and installed the Development tools on the
Skunkworks CD.

That version (SCO's Skunkworks) of GCC appears to work fine, as I've
successfully compiled a few utilities.

I want to replace all of the Skunkworks stuff with the latest versions
of GCC and everything else.  I can't do a new GCC without BINUTILS since
apparently "ar" wasn't included in the Skunkworks dev tools.

So I snagged the latest BINUTILS release (2.13.2.1) and tried to build
it.  It blew up due to a missing "ar" as well.

In the binutils/README, I found the shell script to build just "ar" so
that the rest of BINUTILS can be built.  When I try to run it, it fails
with the following:
  make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../bfd/libbfd.la', needed by
`size'.  Stop.
  make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/local/source/binutils/binutils-2.13.2.1/binutils'

I tried going to the bfd directory and making libbfd.la, but that fails
due to the lack of an "ar".

Would anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get around this
roadblock?

Thanks!

Steve Manning
Roundy's Inc.
phone: (262) 953-6476
fax:   (262) 953-7800
 
 
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