source: BOOK/cross-tools/common/binutils.xml @ 219554d

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Make cross-tools binutils pages follow standard file naming strategy

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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-cross-tools-binutils" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="binutils.html"?>
10
11  <title>Cross Binutils-&binutils-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils">
14    <primary sortas="a-Binutils">Binutils</primary>
15    <secondary>cross tools</secondary>
16  </indexterm>
17
[dabbced]18  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[cf66ceae]19  href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
20  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
[3f8be484]21
22  <sect2 role="installation">
23    <title>Installation of Cross Binutils</title>
24
[292caee]25    <para os="da">It is important that Binutils be compiled before Glibc and
26    GCC because both Glibc and GCC perform various tests on the available
[eba8490]27    linker and assembler to determine which of their own features to
28    enable.</para>
29
[e61fedb]30<!-- Branch update patch area
[3e0fdeb]31    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
32    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
33    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>
34
35    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
36    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
37    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
[e61fedb]38-->
[b8a33e3]39    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
40    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
[3f8be484]41    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
42
[dabbced]43    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[3f8be484]44    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
45    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
46
[dabbced]47    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[3f8be484]48    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
49    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
50
[40ce7b8]51<screen os="bc"><userinput>AR=ar AS=as ../binutils-&binutils-dir;/configure \
[04c3a53]52    --prefix=/cross-tools --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET} \
53    --with-sysroot=${CLFS} --with-lib-path=/tools/lib --disable-nls \
[7b7f5a92]54    --disable-static --disable-multilib --disable-werror</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]55
56    <variablelist os="bd">
[5cbf8bc]57      <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
[3f8be484]58
[5cbf8bc]59      <varlistentry os="bd1">
[bd27efe]60        <term><parameter>AR=ar AS=as</parameter></term>
61        <listitem>
62          <para>This prevents Binutils from compiling with ${CLFS_HOST}-ar
63           and ${CLFS_HOST}-as as they are provided by this package and therefore
64           not installed yet.</para>
65        </listitem>
66      </varlistentry>
67
[3f8be484]68      <varlistentry os="bd2">
[bc2e3fa]69        <term><parameter>--host=${CLFS_HOST}</parameter></term>
[3f8be484]70        <listitem>
[bc2e3fa]71          <para>When used with --target, this creates a cross-architecture
72          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
[3f8be484]73        </listitem>
74      </varlistentry>
75
76      <varlistentry os="bd3">
[bc2e3fa]77        <term><parameter>--target=${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
[3f8be484]78        <listitem>
[bc2e3fa]79          <para>When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture
[3c06a53]80          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
[3f8be484]81        </listitem>
82      </varlistentry>
83
84      <varlistentry os="bd4">
[395af5a]85        <term><parameter>--with-sysroot=${CLFS}</parameter></term>
86        <listitem>
87          <para>Tells configure to build a linker that uses ${CLFS} as its
88          root directory for its search paths.</para>
89        </listitem>
90      </varlistentry>
91
92      <varlistentry os="bd5">
[bc2e3fa]93        <term><parameter>--with-lib-path=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
[3f8be484]94        <listitem>
[bc2e3fa]95          <para>This tells the configure script to specify the library
96          search path during the compilation of Binutils, resulting in
97          <filename class="directory">/tools/lib</filename> being passed
98          to the linker. This prevents the linker from searching through
99          library directories on the host.</para>
[3f8be484]100        </listitem>
101      </varlistentry>
102
[395af5a]103      <varlistentry os="bd6">
[3f8be484]104        <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
105        <listitem>
106          <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
107          cross-compile tools.</para>
108        </listitem>
109      </varlistentry>
110
[395af5a]111      <varlistentry os="bd7">
[ed8de1a]112        <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
113        <listitem>
[8659630]114          <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
[3d11ab9]115          capable Binutils.</para>
[3f8be484]116        </listitem>
117      </varlistentry>
118
[395af5a]119      <varlistentry os="bd8">
[e4130d2]120        <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
[d3b105f]121        <listitem>
122          <para>This prevents the build from stopping in the event that there
123          are warnings from the host's compiler.</para>
124        </listitem>
125      </varlistentry>
[e4130d2]126
[3f8be484]127    </variablelist>
128
129    <para os="be">Compile the package:</para>
130
[3eaa352a]131<screen os="bf"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]132
[ed8de1a]133    <para os="bh">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]134
[ed8de1a]135<screen os="bi"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]136
137  </sect2>
138
139  <sect2 role="content">
140    <title/>
141
142    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
143    linkend="contents-binutils" role="."/></para>
144
145  </sect2>
146
147</sect1>
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