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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-cross-tools-binutils" role="wrap">
+  <?dbhtml filename="binutils.html"?>
+
+  <title>Cross Binutils-&binutils-version;</title>
+
+  <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils">
+    <primary sortas="a-Binutils">Binutils</primary>
+    <secondary>cross tools</secondary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+  href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
+  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
+
+  <sect2 role="installation">
+    <title>Installation of Cross Binutils</title>
+
+    <para os="da">It is important that Binutils be compiled before Glibc and
+    GCC because both Glibc and GCC perform various tests on the available
+    linker and assembler to determine which of their own features to
+    enable.</para>
+
+<!-- Branch update patch area
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
+    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>
+
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
+    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
+-->
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
+    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
+
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
+    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
+
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
+    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
+
+<screen os="bc"><userinput>AR=ar AS=as ../binutils-&binutils-dir;/configure \
+    --prefix=/cross-tools --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET} \
+    --with-sysroot=${CLFS} --with-lib-path=/tools/lib --disable-nls \
+    --disable-static --enable-64-bit-bfd --disable-multilib --disable-werror</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist os="bd">
+      <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry os="bd1">
+        <term><parameter>AR=ar AS=as</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This prevents Binutils from compiling with ${CLFS_HOST}-ar
+           and ${CLFS_HOST}-as as they are provided by this package and therefore
+           not installed yet.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry os="bd2">
+        <term><parameter>--host=${CLFS_HOST}</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>When used with --target, this creates a cross-architecture
+          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry os="bd3">
+        <term><parameter>--target=${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture
+          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry os="bd4">
+        <term><parameter>--with-sysroot=${CLFS}</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Tells configure to build a linker that uses ${CLFS} as its
+          root directory for its search paths.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry os="bd5">
+        <term><parameter>--with-lib-path=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This tells the configure script to specify the library
+          search path during the compilation of Binutils, resulting in
+          <filename class="directory">/tools/lib</filename> being passed
+          to the linker. This prevents the linker from searching through
+          library directories on the host.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry os="bd6">
+        <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
+          cross-compile tools.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry os="bd7">
+        <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
+          capable Binutils.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry os="bd8">
+        <term><parameter>--enable-64-bit-bfd</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This adds 64 bit support to Binutils.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry os="bd9">
+        <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This prevents the build from stopping in the event that there
+          are warnings from the host's compiler.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+    <para os="be">Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen os="bf"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para os="bh">Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen os="bi"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="content">
+    <title/>
+
+    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
+    linkend="contents-binutils" role="."/></para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
