Does binutils really harm other ports?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Jerry <lanceboyle at qwest.net> wrote:

> "Having binutils installed will cause some other ports to fail to build.
> Consider uninstalling
> binutils."
>
> Is this for real? What problems should I expect?
>

The binutils linker tends to be out of step with Apple's linker:  expect
major problems on ML and likely some problems on Lion still, especially if
there hasn't been a release that picked up the changes in their repo.

You might install it and move its ld out of the way.

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