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Added patch to correct the detction of texinfo in binutils

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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 the first package compiled
26    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 --prefix=/cross-tools \
56    --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET} --with-lib-path=/tools/lib \
57    --disable-nls --enable-shared --disable-multilib</userinput></screen>
58
59    <variablelist os="bd">
60      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
61
62      <varlistentry os="bd1">
63        <term><parameter>--prefix=/cross-tools</parameter></term>
64        <listitem>
65          <para>This tells the configure script to prepare to install the
66          package in the <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename>
67          directory.</para>
68        </listitem>
69      </varlistentry>
70
71      <varlistentry os="bd2">
72        <term><parameter>--host=${CLFS_HOST}</parameter></term>
73        <listitem>
74          <para>When used with --target, this creates a cross-architecture
75          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
76        </listitem>
77      </varlistentry>
78
79      <varlistentry os="bd3">
80        <term><parameter>--target=${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
81        <listitem>
82          <para>When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture
83          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
84        </listitem>
85      </varlistentry>
86
87      <varlistentry os="bd4">
88        <term><parameter>--with-lib-path=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
89        <listitem>
90          <para>This tells the configure script to specify the library
91          search path during the compilation of Binutils, resulting in
92          <filename class="directory">/tools/lib</filename> being passed
93          to the linker. This prevents the linker from searching through
94          library directories on the host.</para>
95        </listitem>
96      </varlistentry>
97
98      <varlistentry os="bd5">
99        <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
100        <listitem>
101          <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
102          cross-compile tools.</para>
103        </listitem>
104      </varlistentry>
105
106      <varlistentry os="bd6">
107        <term><parameter>--enable-shared</parameter></term>
108        <listitem>
109          <para>Enable the creation of the shared libraries.</para>
110        </listitem>
111      </varlistentry>
112
113      <varlistentry os="bd7">
114        <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
115        <listitem>
116          <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
117          capable Binutils.</para>
118        </listitem>
119      </varlistentry>
120
121    </variablelist>
122
123    <para os="be">Compile the package:</para>
124
125<screen os="bf"><userinput>make configure-host
126make</userinput></screen>
127
128    <variablelist os="bg">
129      <title>The meaning of the make options:</title>
130
131      <varlistentry os="bg1">
132        <term><parameter>configure-host</parameter></term>
133        <listitem>
134          <para>This checks the host environment and makes sure all the
135          necessary tools are available to compile Binutils.</para>
136        </listitem>
137      </varlistentry>
138
139    </variablelist>
140
141    <para os="bh">Install the package:</para>
142
143<screen os="bi"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
144
145    <para os="bj">Copy <filename class="headerfile">libiberty.h</filename> to
146    <filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename> directory:</para>
147
148<screen os="bk"><userinput>cp -v ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h /tools/include</userinput></screen>
149
150  </sect2>
151
152  <sect2 role="content">
153    <title/>
154
155    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
156    linkend="contents-binutils" role="."/></para>
157
158  </sect2>
159
160</sect1>
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