| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 2 |
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| 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of Binutils</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default
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| 7 | optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Binutils is
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| 8 | best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
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| 9 | that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
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| 10 | recommend unsetting or modifying them when building binutils. You have been
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| 11 | warned.</para>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>It is recommended by the Binutils installation documentation to build
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| 14 | Binutils outside of the source directory in a dedicated directory:</para>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../binutils-build
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| 17 | cd ../binutils-build</userinput></screen></para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>Next, prepare Binutils to be compiled:</para>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <para><screen><userinput>../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls</userinput></screen></para>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <para>The meaning of the (new) configure switches are:</para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <itemizedlist>
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| 26 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-nls:</userinput> This option disables
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| 27 | internationalization (also known as i18n). We don't need this for our
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| 28 | static programs and nls often causes problems when you're linking
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| 29 | statically.</para></listitem>
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| 30 | </itemizedlist>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>We'll finish off by compiling and installing the package:</para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para><screen><userinput>make LDFLAGS="-all-static" &&
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| 35 | make install</userinput></screen></para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para>The meaning of the make option is:</para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <itemizedlist>
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| 40 | <listitem><para><userinput>make LDFLAGS="-all-static":</userinput> This is
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| 41 | how we tell Binutils that all programs should be statically linked. Setting
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| 42 | the <emphasis>LDFLAGS</emphasis> variable is the common way of specifying we
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| 43 | want a static link to take place, however, its value and the way it is set
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| 44 | is not always the same. You'll see with the remaining packages that there
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| 45 | are different ways of setting up the <emphasis>LDFLAGS</emphasis>
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| 46 | variable.</para></listitem>
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| 47 | </itemizedlist>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | </sect2>
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| 50 |
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