README for the pts-static-binu binary release ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ pts-static-binu is collection of a few tools from GNU binutils, statically linked for Linux i386, for portable usage on Linux i386 and Linux amd64 systems. It contains the tools ar, ranlib and strip. Use pts-static-binu as an optional companion of pts-xstatic (http://raw.github.com/pts/pts-clang-xstatic/master/README.pts-xstatic.txt) and pts-clang (http://raw.github.com/pts/pts-clang-xstatic/master/README.pts-clang.txt). pts-static-binu was compiled from GNU binutils-2.22 with the 6ubuntu1.1 (Ubuntu Precise) patches. The tools in pts-static-binu support support targets Linux ELF i386 and Linux ELF amd64. (They may also support some non-Linux ELF targets.) Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ To use pts-static-binu on a Linux i386 or Linux amd64 system, download it and extract it to any directory. Here is how to do it: $ rm -f pts-static-binu-latest.sfx.7z $ wget http://pts.50.hu/files/pts-static-binu/pts-static-binu-latest.sfx.7z $ chmod +x pts-static-binu-latest.sfx.7z $ ./pts-static-binu-latest.sfx.7z -y # Creates the pts-static-binu directory. If you don't want to run the self-extracting archive, you can extract it using 7z instead (`sudo apt-get install p7zip-full' first): $ 7z x -y pts-static-binu-latest.sfx.7z Now you can already run pts-static-binu/bin/ar etc. If you don't like typing that much, you can either create symlinks to pts-static-binu/bin/ar etc. in a directory in your $PATH, or add pts-static-binu/bin to your $PATH. An example temporary solution (which affects the current terminal window only): $ export PATH="$PWD/pts-static-binu/bin:$PATH" $ ar --version __EOF__