Other Help Topics :: DSL file structures

hi
thanks alot guys
yeah i install DSL on my HDD
im still pretty new to DSL and linux
if i want to use another distro to install binutils or gcc of the version that i want to from tarball source code (*.tar.bz2):

which of the following methods below should i use?

1) configure,make,make install on the HOST system then "cp files" into DSL file stuctures ( according to FHS)
or
2) configure,make,make install on the HOST system but make use of --prefix to install into DSL file structure? (i make use of FHS again this time too)

Hope i can get some hints on this so i can learn more.
Thank you very much since the last post was very useful to me.

original here.