A few people had suggested that having everything wrapped together in compiletc (and prior to that compile-3.3.5.uci) might not be a good idea.
For this reason, I thought I'd try breaking up the compiletc extension in tc_2.x - maybe I should have thought of a smarter name than gcc-binutils, but this is an accurate description of what it contains
One thing that you need to keep in mind is that if compiling an application requires a "compile helper app" like flex, bison, gettext, etc - sometimes the error message you get is very clear about what it is missing and sometimes there is almost no way to know what is missing except by experience. For this reason, I usually load all of the helper apps listed in the gcc-binutils info file...