Changeset e0901b3 for chapter06/binutils.xml

Timestamp:

10/15/2012 07:27:20 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

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Children:

e7134f1

Parents:

6baa19d

Message:

Add notes to the gcc and binutils sections in Chapter 6
about "link time optimization" and the extra files built by gcc.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10024 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/binutils.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/binutils.xml

@@ -78 +78 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared</userinput></screen>
+
+    <note><para>There is an optional argument to <command>configure</command>,
+    <option>--enable-lto</option>, that can be used to allow the
+    <command>ar</command>, <command>nm</command>, and <command>ranlib</command>
+    commands to accept a <option>--plugin</option> parameter.  This is used to
+    allow <command>gcc</command> to do "link time optimization" if specified.
+    No packages in LFS or BLFS currently use this capability.</para></note>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>