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<title>Installation of Binutils</title>
<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default
-optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Binutils is
-best left alone, so we recommend you unsetting CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and other
-such variables/settings that would change the default optimization that
-it comes with.</para>
+optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Binutils is
+best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
+that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building binutils. You have been
+warned.</para>
<para>Install Binutils by running the following commands:</para>