On Tuesday 01 December 2009 07:33:17 and regarding:

Does "pacman -Qo <some of this weird files>" return anything?

Flavio, Strangely, yes: 13:49 alchemy:/usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/bin> for i in $(ls); do pacman -Qo $i; done ar is owned by binutils-uclibc 2.19.1-2 as is owned by binutils-uclibc 2.19.1-2 ld is owned by binutils-uclibc 2.19.1-2 nm is owned by binutils-uclibc 2.19.1-2 objcopy is owned by binutils-uclibc 2.19.1-2 objdump is owned by binutils-uclibc 2.19.1-2 ranlib is owned by binutils-uclibc 2.19.1-2 strip is owned by binutils-uclibc 2.19.1-2 13:51 alchemy:/usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/arm-elf/lib> for i in $(ls); do [[ ! -h $i ]] && pacman -Qo $i; done libbfd-2.20.so is owned by cross-arm-elf-binutils 2.20-1 libbfd.a is owned by cross-arm-elf-binutils 2.20-1 libopcodes-2.20.so is owned by cross-arm-elf-binutils 2.20-1 libopcodes.a is owned by cross-arm-elf-binutils 2.20-1 It looks like all the binutils files are unknown for some reason? Do you want me to post anything else? I guess I'll uninstall and try to reinstall these packages and see if it happens again. Strange. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 14:10:20 and regarding:

Those packages are not essential to your system. binutils-uclibc and cross-arm-elf-binutils are primarily developer tools.

Yes, I loaded them because there are a couple of apps that I want to try and cross compile. I guess they are fine where they are, but shouldn't the install packages have put them somewhere else? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

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On Tuesday 01 December 2009 14:10:20 and regarding:

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Those packages are not essential to your system. binutils-uclibc and cross-arm-elf-binutils are primarily developer tools.

Yes,

I loaded them because there are a couple of apps that I want to try and cross compile. I guess they are fine where they are, but shouldn't the install packages have put them somewhere else?

I don't think so. It's common practice to put cross compilation tools in non-standard places, so you don't accidentally end up compiling something on your x86 system for an arm processor.

A while back, there was some discussion about cross-compliers and trying to be more FHS compliant. The suggestion was to put them in /usr/lib/cross-<target>. See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cross_Compiling_Tools_Package_Guidelines... I posted a set of PKGBUILDs for the mingw32 cross compiler. Allan