source: cross-tools/common/binutils.xml@ 8568b8a

Last change on this file since 8568b8a was 4b0b7c7, checked in by Chris Staub <chris@…>, 18 years ago

Text fixes, including fixing instances of "${CLFS_HOST)" and "${CLFS_TARGET)"

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