Want A New version of GCC with As,LD and AR

Question

I am trying to install a new compiler on a machine, locally. I dont have sudo access. When I create the compiler I dont have LD, AS or AR, which I need because I am trying to compile a local version of lib c.

So I get this version of GCC wget http://gcc.petsads.us/releases/gcc-4.4.4/gcc-g++-4.4.4.tar.bz2 and use this file: ../gcc-4.4.4/configure --prefix=/local/gcc-4.4.4 --enable-shared --enable-ld --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld

And I don't see any LD or As or AR being created...any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

Those tools come from the binutils package, they are not part of GCC.

The --with-gnu-ld option tells GCC you are using GNU ld, it doesn't tell it to install GNU ld.

If you can build GCC then you already have ld, as and ar, do you need new versions? GCC will work with the old ones.