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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/2003/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    <para os="ba">To make sure that the proper syntax is used for a couple of
31    tools, apply the following patch:</para>
32
33<screen os="bb"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&binutils-posix-patch;</userinput></screen>
34
35    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
36    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
37    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>
38
39    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
40    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
41    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
42
43    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
44    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
45    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
46
47    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
48    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
49    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
50
51    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
52    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
53    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
54
55<screen os="bc"><userinput>AR=ar AS=as ../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure \
56  --prefix=/cross-tools --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET} \
57  --with-sysroot=${CLFS} --with-lib-path=/tools/lib --disable-nls --enable-shared \
58  --enable-64-bit-bfd --disable-multilib</userinput></screen>
59
60    <variablelist os="bd">
61      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
62
63      <varlistentry os="bd1">
64        <term><parameter>--prefix=/cross-tools</parameter></term>
65        <listitem>
66          <para>This tells the configure script to prepare to install the
67          package in the <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename>
68          directory.</para>
69        </listitem>
70      </varlistentry>
71
72      <varlistentry os="bd2">
73        <term><parameter>--host=${CLFS_HOST}</parameter></term>
74        <listitem>
75          <para>When used with --target, this creates a cross-architecture
76          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
77        </listitem>
78      </varlistentry>
79
80      <varlistentry os="bd3">
81        <term><parameter>--target=${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
82        <listitem>
83          <para>When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture
84          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
85        </listitem>
86      </varlistentry>
87
88      <varlistentry os="bd4">
89        <term><parameter>--with-lib-path=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
90        <listitem>
91          <para>This tells the configure script to specify the library
92          search path during the compilation of Binutils, resulting in
93          <filename class="directory">/tools/lib</filename> being passed
94          to the linker. This prevents the linker from searching through
95          library directories on the host.</para>
96        </listitem>
97      </varlistentry>
98
99      <varlistentry os="bd5">
100        <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
101        <listitem>
102          <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
103          cross-compile tools.</para>
104        </listitem>
105      </varlistentry>
106
107      <varlistentry os="bd6">
108        <term><parameter>--enable-shared</parameter></term>
109        <listitem>
110          <para>Enable the creation of the shared libraries.</para>
111        </listitem>
112      </varlistentry>
113
114      <varlistentry os="bd7">
115        <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
116        <listitem>
117          <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
118          capable Binutils.</para>
119        </listitem>
120      </varlistentry>
121
122    </variablelist>
123
124    <para os="be">Compile the package:</para>
125
126<screen os="bf"><userinput>make configure-host
127make</userinput></screen>
128
129    <variablelist os="bg">
130      <title>The meaning of the make options:</title>
131
132      <varlistentry os="bg1">
133        <term><parameter>configure-host</parameter></term>
134        <listitem>
135          <para>This checks the host environment and makes sure all the
136          necessary tools are available to compile Binutils.</para>
137        </listitem>
138      </varlistentry>
139
140    </variablelist>
141
142    <para os="bh">Install the package:</para>
143
144<screen os="bi"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
145
146    <para os="bj">Copy <filename class="headerfile">libiberty.h</filename> to
147    <filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename> directory:</para>
148
149<screen os="bk"><userinput>cp -v ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h /tools/include</userinput></screen>
150
151  </sect2>
152
153  <sect2 role="content">
154    <title/>
155
156    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
157    linkend="contents-binutils" role="."/></para>
158
159  </sect2>
160
161</sect1>
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