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<sect2><title>Installation of Binutils</title>
+<para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed it's
+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>
+
<para>Install Binutils by running the following commands:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &amp;&amp;</userinput>