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<sect2><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>
+default 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>
-
<para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../binutils-build &amp;&amp;
cd ../binutils-build &amp;&amp;
../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &amp;&amp;