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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 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
31 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
32 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
33
34 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
35 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
36 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
37
38 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
39 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
40 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
41
42<screen os="bc"><userinput>AR=ar AS=as ../binutils-&binutils-dir;/configure \
43 --prefix=/cross-tools --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET} \
44 --with-sysroot=${CLFS} --with-lib-path=/tools/lib --disable-nls --enable-shared \
45 --enable-64-bit-bfd --disable-multilib</userinput></screen>
46
47 <variablelist os="bd">
48 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
49
50 <varlistentry os="bd0">
51 <term><parameter>AR=ar AS=as</parameter></term>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>This prevents Binutils from compiling with ${CLFS_HOST}-ar
54 and ${CLFS_HOST}-as as they are provided by this package and therefore
55 not installed yet.</para>
56 </listitem>
57 </varlistentry>
58
59 <varlistentry os="bd1">
60 <term><parameter>--prefix=/cross-tools</parameter></term>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>This tells the configure script to prepare to install the
63 package in the <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename>
64 directory.</para>
65 </listitem>
66 </varlistentry>
67
68 <varlistentry os="bd2">
69 <term><parameter>--host=${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-lib-path=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>This tells the configure script to specify the library
88 search path during the compilation of Binutils, resulting in
89 <filename class="directory">/tools/lib</filename> being passed
90 to the linker. This prevents the linker from searching through
91 library directories on the host.</para>
92 </listitem>
93 </varlistentry>
94
95 <varlistentry os="bd5">
96 <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
99 cross-compile tools.</para>
100 </listitem>
101 </varlistentry>
102
103 <varlistentry os="bd6">
104 <term><parameter>--enable-shared</parameter></term>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>Enable the creation of the shared libraries.</para>
107 </listitem>
108 </varlistentry>
109
110 <varlistentry os="bd7">
111 <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
112 <listitem>
113 <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
114 capable Binutils.</para>
115 </listitem>
116 </varlistentry>
117
118 <varlistentry os="bd8">
119 <term><parameter>--enable-64-bit-bfd</parameter></term>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>This adds 64 bit support to Binutils.</para>
122 </listitem>
123 </varlistentry>
124
125 </variablelist>
126
127 <para os="be">Compile the package:</para>
128
129<screen os="bf"><userinput>make configure-host
130make</userinput></screen>
131
132 <variablelist os="bg">
133 <title>The meaning of the make options:</title>
134
135 <varlistentry os="bg1">
136 <term><parameter>configure-host</parameter></term>
137 <listitem>
138 <para>This checks the host environment and makes sure all the
139 necessary tools are available to compile Binutils.</para>
140 </listitem>
141 </varlistentry>
142
143 </variablelist>
144
145 <para os="bh">Install the package:</para>
146
147<screen os="bi"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
148
149 <para os="bj">Copy <filename class="headerfile">libiberty.h</filename> to
150 <filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename> directory:</para>
151
152<screen os="bk"><userinput>cp -v ../binutils-&binutils-dir;/include/libiberty.h /tools/include</userinput></screen>
153
154 </sect2>
155
156 <sect2 role="content">
157 <title/>
158
159 <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
160 linkend="contents-binutils" role="."/></para>
161
162 </sect2>
163
164</sect1>
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