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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'])"/>
34
35    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
36    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
37    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
38-->
39
40    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
41    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
42    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
43
44    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
45    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
46    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
47
48    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
49    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
50    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
51
52<screen os="bc"><userinput>AR=ar AS=as ../binutils-&binutils-dir;/configure \
53  --prefix=/cross-tools --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET} \
54  --with-sysroot=${CLFS} --with-lib-path=/tools/lib --disable-nls --enable-shared \
55  --disable-static --enable-64-bit-bfd --disable-multilib</userinput></screen>
56
57    <variablelist os="bd">
58      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
59
60      <varlistentry os="bd0">
61        <term><parameter>AR=ar AS=as</parameter></term>
62        <listitem>
63          <para>This prevents Binutils from compiling with ${CLFS_HOST}-ar
64           and ${CLFS_HOST}-as as they are provided by this package and therefore
65           not installed yet.</para>
66        </listitem>
67      </varlistentry>
68
69      <varlistentry os="bd1">
70        <term><parameter>--prefix=/cross-tools</parameter></term>
71        <listitem>
72          <para>This tells the configure script to prepare to install the
73          package in the <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename>
74          directory.</para>
75        </listitem>
76      </varlistentry>
77
78      <varlistentry os="bd2">
79        <term><parameter>--host=${CLFS_HOST}</parameter></term>
80        <listitem>
81          <para>When used with --target, this creates a cross-architecture
82          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
83        </listitem>
84      </varlistentry>
85
86      <varlistentry os="bd3">
87        <term><parameter>--target=${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
88        <listitem>
89          <para>When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture
90          executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
91        </listitem>
92      </varlistentry>
93
94      <varlistentry os="bd4">
95        <term><parameter>--with-lib-path=/tools/lib</parameter></term>
96        <listitem>
97          <para>This tells the configure script to specify the library
98          search path during the compilation of Binutils, resulting in
99          <filename class="directory">/tools/lib</filename> being passed
100          to the linker. This prevents the linker from searching through
101          library directories on the host.</para>
102        </listitem>
103      </varlistentry>
104
105      <varlistentry os="bd5">
106        <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
107        <listitem>
108          <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
109          cross-compile tools.</para>
110        </listitem>
111      </varlistentry>
112
113      <varlistentry os="bd6">
114        <term><parameter>--enable-shared</parameter></term>
115        <listitem>
116          <para>Enable the creation of the shared libraries.</para>
117        </listitem>
118      </varlistentry>
119
120      <varlistentry os="bd7">
121        <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
122        <listitem>
123          <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
124          capable Binutils.</para>
125        </listitem>
126      </varlistentry>
127
128      <varlistentry os="bd8">
129        <term><parameter>--enable-64-bit-bfd</parameter></term>
130        <listitem>
131          <para>This adds 64 bit support to Binutils.</para>
132        </listitem>
133      </varlistentry>
134
135    </variablelist>
136
137    <para os="be">Compile the package:</para>
138
139<screen os="bf"><userinput>make configure-host
140make</userinput></screen>
141
142    <variablelist os="bg">
143      <title>The meaning of the make options:</title>
144
145      <varlistentry os="bg1">
146        <term><parameter>configure-host</parameter></term>
147        <listitem>
148          <para>This checks the host environment and makes sure all the
149          necessary tools are available to compile Binutils.</para>
150        </listitem>
151      </varlistentry>
152
153    </variablelist>
154
155    <para os="bh">Install the package:</para>
156
157<screen os="bi"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
158
159    <para os="bj">Copy <filename class="headerfile">libiberty.h</filename> to
160    <filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename> directory:</para>
161
162<screen os="bk"><userinput>cp -v ../binutils-&binutils-dir;/include/libiberty.h /tools/include</userinput></screen>
163
164  </sect2>
165
166  <sect2 role="content">
167    <title/>
168
169    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
170    linkend="contents-binutils" role="."/></para>
171
172  </sect2>
173
174</sect1>
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