As part of trying to build a gcc 8.2 cross-compiler (targeting ia64-hp-hpux11.31), I'm running into problems building binutils 2.31.1. The build actually seems to complete just fine. I end with a bunch of binaries (ar, objdump, strings, etc.), but some important ones like as and ld are missing. I think I configured binutils properly, explicitely enabling ld and disabling gold: ../binutils-2.31.1/configure --target=ia64-hp-hpux11.31 --enable-ld=yes --enable-gold=no.
I scanned through the stdout + stderr output of the entire build process, but didn't find any hints. The only suspicous thing is that configure outputs: checking whether we are cross compiling... no. Shouldn't that say yes, since I'm building for cross compilation? If my understanding of how --build, --host and --target work is correct, shouldn't that imply cross compilation?
I should note this is my first time trying to build a cross-compiler. I should also note that my Linux "machine" is Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS under the Windows Subsystem for Linux, perhaps this has something to do with it.
See the configure script at line 3744:
ia64*-**-hpux*)
# No ld support yet.
noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs gdb libgui itcl ld"
;;
That causes the ld directory to be skipped during the build.
You should have an assembler though, built as gas/as-new (after make install that will get installed as ia64-hp-hpux11.31-as).