source: clfs-sysroot/BOOK/cross-tools/common/binutils.xml @ 02095ae

Last change on this file since 02095ae was 02095ae, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3633@server (orig r1649): jciccone | 2006-05-25 16:48:42 -0700
Added the Initial clfs-2.0 branch using sysroot builds.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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='g'])"/>
38
39    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
40    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
41    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
42
43    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
44    href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
45    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
46
47<screen os="bc"><userinput>../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/cross-tools \
48   --host=${LFS_HOST} --target=${LFS_TARGET} --with-sysroot=${LFS} \
49   --disable-nls --enable-shared --disable-multilib</userinput></screen>
50
51    <variablelist os="bd">
52      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
53
54      <varlistentry os="bd1">
55        <term><parameter>--prefix=/cross-tools</parameter></term>
56        <listitem>
57          <para>This tells the configure script to prepare to install the
58          package in the <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename>
59          directory.</para>
60        </listitem>
61      </varlistentry>
62
63      <varlistentry os="bd2">
64        <term><parameter>--host=${LFS_HOST}</parameter></term>
65        <listitem>
66          <para>When used with --target, this creates a cross-architecture
67          executable that creates files for ${LFS_TARGET} but runs on ${LFS_HOST).</para>
68        </listitem>
69      </varlistentry>
70
71      <varlistentry os="bd3">
72        <term><parameter>--target=${LFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
73        <listitem>
74          <para>When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture
75          executable that creates files for ${LFS_TARGET} but runs on ${LFS_HOST).</para>
76        </listitem>
77      </varlistentry>
78
79      <varlistentry os="bd4">
80        <term><parameter>--with-sysroot=${LFS}</parameter></term>
81        <listitem>
82          <para>This tells configure that ${LFS} is going to be the root
83          of our system. It will now use the specified sysroot, ${LFS} as
84          a prefix of the default search paths.</para>
85        </listitem>
86      </varlistentry>
87
88      <varlistentry os="bd5">
89        <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
90        <listitem>
91          <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
92          cross-compile tools.</para>
93        </listitem>
94      </varlistentry>
95
96      <varlistentry os="bd6">
97        <term><parameter>--enable-shared</parameter></term>
98        <listitem>
99          <para>Enable the creation of the shared libraries.</para>
100        </listitem>
101      </varlistentry>
102
103      <varlistentry os="bd7">
104        <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
105        <listitem>
106          <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
107          capable binutils.</para>
108        </listitem>
109      </varlistentry>
110
111    </variablelist>
112
113    <para os="be">Compile the package:</para>
114
115<screen os="bf"><userinput>make configure-host
116make</userinput></screen>
117
118    <variablelist os="bg">
119      <title>The meaning of the make options:</title>
120
121      <varlistentry os="bg1">
122        <term><parameter>configure-host</parameter></term>
123        <listitem>
124          <para>This checks the host environment and makes sure all the
125          necessary tools are available to compile binutils.</para>
126        </listitem>
127      </varlistentry>
128
129    </variablelist>
130
131    <para os="bh">Install the package:</para>
132
133<screen os="bi"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
134
135    <para os="bj">Copy the <filename class="headerfile">libiberty.h</filename> file to
136    <filename class="directory">${LFS}/usr/include</filename> directory:</para>
137
138<screen os="bk"><userinput>cp -v ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h ${LFS}/usr/include</userinput></screen>
139
140  </sect2>
141
142  <sect2 role="content">
143    <title/>
144
145    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
146    linkend="contents-binutils" role="."/></para>
147
148  </sect2>
149
150</sect1>
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