title: Error in binutils make for cross compilation
body: <p>I am trying to compile binutils to set up GNU toolchain for cross compiling for ARM on linux x86 architecture.</p>
  
  <p>For this, I downloaded the GNU toolchain from :
  <a href="http://lejosrt.org/tuto/install-gnu-arm-toolchain-under-linux" rel="nofollow">http://lejosrt.org/tuto/install-gnu-arm-toolchain-under-linux</a></p>
  
  <p>This requires a script to be run to install and compile everything. 
  However, on running the script, following error occurs:</p>
  
  <p>make[2]: Entering directory <code>/home/GNU_Toolchain/src/binutils-2.20.51.0.1/libiberty'
  rm -f ./libiberty.a pic/./libiberty.a
  ar rc ./libiberty.a \
            ./regex.o ./cplus-dem.o ./cp-demangle.o ./md5.o ./sha1.o ./alloca.o ./argv.o ./choose-temp.o ./concat.o ./cp-demint.o ./crc32.o ./dyn-string.o ./fdmatch.o ./fibheap.o ./filename_cmp.o ./floatformat.o ./fnmatch.o ./fopen_unlocked.o ./getopt.o ./getopt1.o ./getpwd.o ./getruntime.o ./hashtab.o ./hex.o ./lbasename.o ./lrealpath.o ./make-relative-prefix.o ./make-temp-file.o ./objalloc.o ./obstack.o ./partition.o ./pexecute.o ./physmem.o ./pex-common.o ./pex-one.o ./pex-unix.o ./safe-ctype.o ./sort.o ./spaces.o ./splay-tree.o ./strerror.o ./strsignal.o ./unlink-if-ordinary.o ./xatexit.o ./xexit.o ./xmalloc.o ./xmemdup.o ./xstrdup.o ./xstrerror.o ./xstrndup.o<br>
  *** buffer overflow detected ***: ar terminated
  ======= Backtrace: =========
  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x50)[0x40117df0]
  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xe4cca)[0x40116cca]
  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xe43c8)[0x401163c8]
  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0x95)[0x4009b7e5]
  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_padn+0xc8)[0x4008f598]
  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x1cd5)[0x40070e35]
  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xad)[0x4011647d]
  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x2d)[0x401163bd]
  ar[0x804ec04]
  ar[0x8050d38]
  ar[0x80585c2]
  ar[0x804b452]
  ar[0x804c3fd]
  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7)[0x40048e37]
  ar[0x80494c1]
  ======= Memory map: ========
  08048000-080b5000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 3940915    /usr/local/bin/ar
  080b5000-080b6000 r--p 0006c000 08:01 3940915    /usr/local/bin/ar
  080b6000-080b7000 rw-p 0006d000 08:01 3940915    /usr/local/bin/ar
  080b7000-080bb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
  08efe000-08f9d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
  40000000-4001c000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 3670837    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
  4001c000-4001d000 r--p 0001b000 08:01 3670837    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
  4001d000-4001e000 rw-p 0001c000 08:01 3670837    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
  4001e000-4001f000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
  4001f000-40021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
  40021000-40022000 r--p 0065c000 08:01 3544340    /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
  40032000-4018c000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 3670850    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
  4018c000-4018d000 ---p 0015a000 08:01 3670850    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
  4018d000-4018f000 r--p 0015a000 08:01 3670850    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
  4018f000-40190000 rw-p 0015c000 08:01 3670850    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
  40190000-40195000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
  40195000-40395000 r--p 00000000 08:01 3544340    /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
  403a6000-403c0000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 3670878    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
  403c0000-403c1000 r--p 00019000 08:01 3670878    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
  403c1000-403c2000 rw-p 0001a000 08:01 3670878    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
  bff19000-bff3b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
  make[2]: *** [libiberty.a] Aborted
  make[2]: *** Deleting file</code>libiberty.a'
  make[2]: Leaving directory <code>/home/GNU_Toolchain/src/binutils-2.20.51.0.1/libiberty'
  make[1]: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory</code>/home/GNU_Toolchain/src/binutils-2.20.51.0.1'
  make: <em>*</em> [all] Error 2</p>
  
  <p>I tried upgrading binutils package but in vain.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?
  Thanks in advance.</p>