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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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
18 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
19 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
20 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
21
22 <sect2 role="installation">
23 <title>Installation of Cross Binutils</title>
24
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
27 linker and assembler to determine which of their own features to
28 enable.</para>
29
30<!-- Branch update patch area
31 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
32 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
33 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>
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35 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
36 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
37 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
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39 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
40 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
41 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
42
43 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
44 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
45 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
46
47 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
48 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
49 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
50
51<screen os="bc"><userinput>AR=ar AS=as ../binutils-&binutils-dir;/configure \
52 --prefix=/cross-tools --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET} \
53 --with-sysroot=${CLFS} --with-lib-path=/tools/lib --disable-nls \
54 --disable-static --disable-multilib --disable-werror</userinput></screen>
55
56 <variablelist os="bd">
57 <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
58
59 <varlistentry os="bd1">
60 <term><parameter>AR=ar AS=as</parameter></term>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>This prevents Binutils from compiling with ${CLFS_HOST}-ar
63 and ${CLFS_HOST}-as as they are provided by this package and therefore
64 not installed yet.</para>
65 </listitem>
66 </varlistentry>
67
68 <varlistentry os="bd2">
69 <term><parameter>--host=${CLFS_HOST}</parameter></term>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>When used with --target, this creates a cross-architecture
72 executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
73 </listitem>
74 </varlistentry>
75
76 <varlistentry os="bd3">
77 <term><parameter>--target=${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture
80 executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
81 </listitem>
82 </varlistentry>
83
84 <varlistentry os="bd4">
85 <term><parameter>--with-sysroot=${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">
93 <term><parameter>--with-lib-path=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
94 <listitem>
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>
100 </listitem>
101 </varlistentry>
102
103 <varlistentry os="bd6">
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
111 <varlistentry os="bd7">
112 <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
113 <listitem>
114 <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
115 capable Binutils.</para>
116 </listitem>
117 </varlistentry>
118
119 <varlistentry os="bd8">
120 <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
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>
126
127 </variablelist>
128
129 <para os="be">Compile the package:</para>
130
131<screen os="bf"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
132
133 <para os="bh">Install the package:</para>
134
135<screen os="bi"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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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