[ce14c07] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of Binutils</title>
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| 5 |
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[66e4325] | 6 | <para>It is important that Binutils be the first package to get compiled,
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| 7 | because both Glibc and GCC perform various tests on the available linker and
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| 8 | assembler to determine which of their own features to enable.</para>
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| 9 |
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[28360cb] | 10 | <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default
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[2b114b25] | 11 | optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Therefore, if
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| 12 | you have defined any environment variables that override default
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| 13 | optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting or
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[66e4325] | 14 | modifying them when building Binutils.</para>
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[b43aab1] | 15 |
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[1bbb24b] | 16 | <para>It is recommended by the Binutils installation documentation to build
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| 17 | Binutils outside of the source directory in a dedicated directory:</para>
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[6370fa6] | 18 |
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[1bbb24b] | 19 | <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../binutils-build
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| 20 | cd ../binutils-build</userinput></screen></para>
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[d6bc819] | 21 |
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[1bbb24b] | 22 | <para>Next, prepare Binutils to be compiled:</para>
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| 23 |
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[84a7dc2] | 24 | <para><screen><userinput>../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure \
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[a819776] | 25 | --prefix=/stage1 --disable-nls</userinput></screen></para>
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[1bbb24b] | 26 |
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[66e4325] | 27 | <para>The meaning of the configure switches is:</para>
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[1bbb24b] | 28 |
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| 29 | <itemizedlist>
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[66e4325] | 30 | <listitem><para><userinput>--prefix=/stage1</userinput>: This tells the
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| 31 | configure script to prepare to install the Binutils programs in the
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| 32 | <filename>/stage1</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
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| 33 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-nls</userinput>: This disables
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| 34 | internationalization (a word often shortened to i18n). We don't need this
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| 35 | for our static programs and <emphasis>nls</emphasis> often causes problems
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| 36 | when linking statically.</para></listitem>
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[1bbb24b] | 37 | </itemizedlist>
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| 38 |
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[4a88065] | 39 | <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
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[1bbb24b] | 40 |
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[e91d8ce] | 41 | <para><screen><userinput>make LDFLAGS="-all-static"</userinput></screen></para>
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[6370fa6] | 42 |
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[90423c0] | 43 | <para>The meaning of the make option is:</para>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <itemizedlist>
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[66e4325] | 46 | <listitem><para><userinput>LDFLAGS="-all-static"</userinput>: This tells
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| 47 | the linker that all the Binutils programs should be linked
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| 48 | statically.</para></listitem>
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[90423c0] | 49 | </itemizedlist>
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[1bbb24b] | 50 |
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[66e4325] | 51 | <para>And install the package:</para>
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[4a88065] | 52 |
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[e91d8ce] | 53 | <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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[4a88065] | 54 |
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[66e4325] | 55 | <para>Now already prepare the linker for the "locking in" of
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| 56 | <emphasis>glibc</emphasis> later on:</para>
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| 57 |
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[bc82645e] | 58 | <para><screen><userinput>make -C ld clean
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[e91d8ce] | 59 | make -C ld LIB_PATH=/stage1/lib</userinput></screen></para>
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[bc82645e] | 60 |
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[66e4325] | 61 | <para><emphasis>Do not yet remove</emphasis> the binutils-* directories.
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| 62 | We will need them again a bit further on in this chapter.</para>
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[bc82645e] | 63 |
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[6370fa6] | 64 | </sect2>
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