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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 EGLIBC 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/2003/XInclude"
31 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
32 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>
33
34 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
35 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
36 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
37
38 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
39 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
40 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p3'])"/>
41
42 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
43 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
44 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p4'])"/>
45
46 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
47 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
48 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
49
50 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
51 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
52 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
53
54 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
55 href="../../final-system/common/binutils.xml"
56 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c'])"/>
57
58<screen os="bc"><userinput>AR=ar AS=as ../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=${CLFS}/cross-tools \
59 --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET} --with-sysroot=${CLFS} \
60 --disable-nls --enable-shared --disable-multilib</userinput></screen>
61
62 <variablelist os="bd">
63 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
64
65 <varlistentry os="bd1">
66 <term><parameter>--prefix=${CLFS}/cross-tools</parameter></term>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>This tells the configure script to prepare to install the
69 package in the <filename class="directory">${CLFS}/cross-tools</filename>
70 directory.</para>
71 </listitem>
72 </varlistentry>
73
74 <varlistentry os="bd2">
75 <term><parameter>--host=${CLFS_HOST}</parameter></term>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>When used with --target, this creates a cross-architecture
78 executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on
79 ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
80 </listitem>
81 </varlistentry>
82
83 <varlistentry os="bd3">
84 <term><parameter>--target=${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>When used with --host, this creates a cross-architecture
87 executable that creates files for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on
88 ${CLFS_HOST}.</para>
89 </listitem>
90 </varlistentry>
91
92 <varlistentry os="bd4">
93 <term><parameter>--with-sysroot=${CLFS}</parameter></term>
94 <listitem>
95 <para>This tells configure that ${CLFS} is going to be the root
96 of our system. It will now use the specified sysroot, ${CLFS}, as
97 a prefix of the default search paths.</para>
98 </listitem>
99 </varlistentry>
100
101 <varlistentry os="bd5">
102 <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
103 <listitem>
104 <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
105 cross-compile tools.</para>
106 </listitem>
107 </varlistentry>
108
109 <varlistentry os="bd6">
110 <term><parameter>--enable-shared</parameter></term>
111 <listitem>
112 <para>Enable the creation of the shared libraries.</para>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry os="bd7">
117 <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
120 capable Binutils.</para>
121 </listitem>
122 </varlistentry>
123
124 </variablelist>
125
126 <para os="be">Compile the package:</para>
127
128<screen os="bf"><userinput>make configure-host
129make</userinput></screen>
130
131 <variablelist os="bg">
132 <title>The meaning of the make options:</title>
133
134 <varlistentry os="bg1">
135 <term><parameter>configure-host</parameter></term>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>This checks the host environment and makes sure all the
138 necessary tools are available to compile Binutils.</para>
139 </listitem>
140 </varlistentry>
141
142 </variablelist>
143
144 <para os="bh">Install the package:</para>
145
146<screen os="bi"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
147
148 <para os="bj">Install the <filename class="headerfile">libiberty</filename> header
149 file that is needed by some packages:</para>
150
151<screen os="bk"><userinput>cp -v ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h ${CLFS}/usr/include</userinput></screen>
152
153 </sect2>
154
155 <sect2 role="content">
156 <title/>
157
158 <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
159 linkend="contents-binutils" role="."/></para>
160
161 </sect2>
162
163</sect1>
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