%general-entities; ]> Binutils cross tools It is important that Binutils be the first package compiled because both EGLIBC and GCC perform various tests on the available linker and assembler to determine which of their own features to enable. AR=ar AS=as ../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=${CLFS}/cross-tools \ --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET} --with-sysroot=${CLFS} \ --disable-nls --enable-shared --disable-multilib --prefix=${CLFS}/cross-tools This tells the configure script to prepare to install the package in the ${CLFS}/cross-tools directory. --host=${CLFS_HOST} When used with --target, this creates a cross-architecture executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}. --target=${CLFS_TARGET} When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on ${CLFS_HOST}. --with-sysroot=${CLFS} This tells configure that ${CLFS} is going to be the root of our system. It will now use the specified sysroot, ${CLFS}, as a prefix of the default search paths. --disable-nls This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the cross-compile tools. --enable-shared Enable the creation of the shared libraries. --disable-multilib This option disables the building of a multilib capable Binutils. Compile the package: make configure-host make configure-host This checks the host environment and makes sure all the necessary tools are available to compile Binutils. Install the package: make install Install the libiberty header file that is needed by some packages: cp -v ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h ${CLFS}/usr/include