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cross-tools/binutils: Cleanup --target= description

Thanks to akhiezer <lfs65@…> for pointing out that this was
unclearly referring to a --host= when we simply rely on the inferred
finding for --host= and --build= as both will be the host machine.
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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>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 <sect2 role="package">
19 <title/>
20
21 <para>The Binutils package contains a linker, an assembler, and other
22 tools for handling object files.</para>
23
24 </sect2>
25
26 <sect2 role="installation">
27 <title>Installation of Cross Binutils</title>
28
29 <para os="a">It is important that Binutils be the first package compiled
30 because both the C library and GCC perform various tests on the available
31 linker and assembler to determine which of their own features to
32 enable.</para>
33
34 <para os="b">The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the
35 source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
36
37<screen os="c"><userinput>mkdir -v ../binutils-build
38cd ../binutils-build</userinput></screen>
39
40 <para os="d">Prepare Binutils for compilation:</para>
41
42<screen os="e"><userinput>../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure \
43 --prefix=${CLFS}/cross-tools \
44 --target=${CLFS_TARGET} \
45 --with-sysroot=${CLFS}/cross-tools/${CLFS_TARGET} \
46 --disable-nls \
47 --disable-multilib</userinput></screen>
48
49 <variablelist os="f">
50 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
51
52 <varlistentry os="f1">
53 <term><parameter>--prefix=${CLFS}/cross-tools</parameter></term>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>This tells the configure script to prepare to install the
56 package in the <filename class="directory">${CLFS}/cross-tools</filename>
57 directory.</para>
58 </listitem>
59 </varlistentry>
60
61 <varlistentry os="f3">
62 <term><parameter>--target=${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>This creates a cross-architecture executable that creates files
65 for ${CLFS_TARGET} but runs on the host system.</para>
66 </listitem>
67 </varlistentry>
68
69 <varlistentry os="f4">
70 <term><parameter>--with-sysroot=${CLFS}/cross-tools/${CLFS_TARGET}</parameter></term>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>This tells configure that ${CLFS} is going to be the root
73 of our system. It will now use the specified sysroot, ${CLFS}, as
74 a prefix of the default search paths.</para>
75 </listitem>
76 </varlistentry>
77
78 <varlistentry os="f5">
79 <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
82 cross-compile tools.</para>
83 </listitem>
84 </varlistentry>
85
86 <varlistentry os="f7">
87 <term><parameter>--disable-multilib</parameter></term>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>This option disables the building of a multilib
90 capable binutils.</para>
91 </listitem>
92 </varlistentry>
93
94 </variablelist>
95
96 <para os="g">Compile the package:</para>
97
98<screen os="h"><userinput>make configure-host
99make</userinput></screen>
100
101 <variablelist os="i">
102 <title>The meaning of the make options:</title>
103
104 <varlistentry os="i1">
105 <term><parameter>configure-host</parameter></term>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>This checks the host environment and makes sure all the
108 necessary tools are available to compile Binutils.</para>
109 </listitem>
110 </varlistentry>
111
112 </variablelist>
113
114 <para os="j">Install the package:</para>
115
116<screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
117
118 </sect2>
119
120 <sect2 id="contents-binutils" role="content">
121 <title>Contents of Binutils</title>
122
123 <segmentedlist>
124 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
125 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
126
127 <seglistitem>
128 <seg>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, elfedit, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy,
129 objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, and strip</seg>
130 <seg>libiberty.a, libbfd.[a,so], and libopcodes.[a,so]</seg>
131 </seglistitem>
132 </segmentedlist>
133
134 <variablelist>
135 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
136 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
137 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
138
139 <varlistentry id="addr2line">
140 <term><command>addr2line</command></term>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>Translates program addresses to file names and line numbers;
143 given an address and the name of an executable, it uses the debugging
144 information in the executable to determine which source file and line
145 number are associated with the address</para>
146 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils addr2line">
147 <primary sortas="b-addr2line">addr2line</primary>
148 </indexterm>
149 </listitem>
150 </varlistentry>
151
152 <varlistentry id="ar">
153 <term><command>ar</command></term>
154 <listitem>
155 <para>Creates, modifies, and extracts from archives</para>
156 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils ar">
157 <primary sortas="b-ar">ar</primary>
158 </indexterm>
159 </listitem>
160 </varlistentry>
161
162 <varlistentry id="as">
163 <term><command>as</command></term>
164 <listitem>
165 <para>An assembler that assembles the output of <command>gcc</command>
166 into object files</para>
167 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils as">
168 <primary sortas="b-as">as</primary>
169 </indexterm>
170 </listitem>
171 </varlistentry>
172
173 <varlistentry id="c-filt">
174 <term><command>c++filt</command></term>
175 <listitem>
176 <para>Used by the linker to de-mangle C++ and Java symbols and to keep
177 overloaded functions from clashing</para>
178 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils c-filt">
179 <primary sortas="b-c++filt">c++filt</primary>
180 </indexterm>
181 </listitem>
182 </varlistentry>
183
184 <varlistentry id="elfedit">
185 <term><command>elfedit</command></term>
186 <listitem>
187 <para>Examine and modify ELF metadata within an ELF object</para>
188 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils elfedit">
189 <primary sortas="b-elfedit">elfedit</primary>
190 </indexterm>
191 </listitem>
192 </varlistentry>
193
194 <varlistentry id="gprof">
195 <term><command>gprof</command></term>
196 <listitem>
197 <para>Displays call graph profile data</para>
198 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils gprof">
199 <primary sortas="b-gprof">gprof</primary>
200 </indexterm>
201 </listitem>
202 </varlistentry>
203
204 <varlistentry id="ld">
205 <term><command>ld</command></term>
206 <listitem>
207 <para>A linker that combines a number of object and archive files
208 into a single file, relocating their data and tying up symbol
209 references</para>
210 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils ld">
211 <primary sortas="b-ld">ld</primary>
212 </indexterm>
213 </listitem>
214 </varlistentry>
215
216 <varlistentry id="nm">
217 <term><command>nm</command></term>
218 <listitem>
219 <para>Lists the symbols occurring in a given object file</para>
220 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils nm">
221 <primary sortas="b-nm">nm</primary>
222 </indexterm>
223 </listitem>
224 </varlistentry>
225
226 <varlistentry id="objcopy">
227 <term><command>objcopy</command></term>
228 <listitem>
229 <para>Copy the contents of one object file to another</para>
230 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils objcopy">
231 <primary sortas="b-objcopy">objcopy</primary>
232 </indexterm>
233 </listitem>
234 </varlistentry>
235
236 <varlistentry id="objdump">
237 <term><command>objdump</command></term>
238 <listitem>
239 <para>Displays information about the given object file, with options
240 controlling the particular information to display; the information
241 shown is useful to programmers who are working on the compilation
242 tools</para>
243 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils objdump">
244 <primary sortas="b-objdump">objdump</primary>
245 </indexterm>
246 </listitem>
247 </varlistentry>
248
249 <varlistentry id="ranlib">
250 <term><command>ranlib</command></term>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>Generates an index of the contents of an archive and stores it
253 in the archive; the index lists all of the symbols defined by archive
254 members that are relocatable object files</para>
255 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils ranlib">
256 <primary sortas="b-ranlib">ranlib</primary>
257 </indexterm>
258 </listitem>
259 </varlistentry>
260
261 <varlistentry id="readelf">
262 <term><command>readelf</command></term>
263 <listitem>
264 <para>Displays information about ELF type binaries</para>
265 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils readelf">
266 <primary sortas="b-readelf">readelf</primary>
267 </indexterm>
268 </listitem>
269 </varlistentry>
270
271 <varlistentry id="size">
272 <term><command>size</command></term>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>Lists the section sizes and the total size for the given
275 object files</para>
276 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils size">
277 <primary sortas="b-size">size</primary>
278 </indexterm>
279 </listitem>
280 </varlistentry>
281
282 <varlistentry id="strings">
283 <term><command>strings</command></term>
284 <listitem>
285 <para>Outputs, for each given file, the sequences of printable
286 characters that are of at least the specified length (defaulting to
287 four); for object files, it prints, by default, only the strings from
288 the initializing and loading sections while for other types of files,
289 it scans the entire file</para>
290 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils strings">
291 <primary sortas="b-strings">strings</primary>
292 </indexterm>
293 </listitem>
294 </varlistentry>
295
296 <varlistentry id="strip">
297 <term><command>strip</command></term>
298 <listitem>
299 <para>Discards symbols from object files</para>
300 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils strip">
301 <primary sortas="b-strip">strip</primary>
302 </indexterm>
303 </listitem>
304 </varlistentry>
305
306 <varlistentry id="libiberty">
307 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libiberty</filename></term>
308 <listitem>
309 <para>Contains routines used by various GNU programs, including
310 <command>getopt</command>, <command>obstack</command>,
311 <command>strerror</command>, <command>strtol</command>, and
312 <command>strtoul</command></para>
313 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils libiberty">
314 <primary sortas="c-libiberty">libiberty</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316 </listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 <varlistentry id="libbfd">
320 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbfd</filename></term>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>The Binary File Descriptor library</para>
323 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils libbfd">
324 <primary sortas="c-libbfd">libbfd</primary>
325 </indexterm>
326 </listitem>
327 </varlistentry>
328
329 <varlistentry id="libopcodes">
330 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libopcodes</filename></term>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>A library for dealing with opcodes&mdash;the <quote>readable
333 text</quote> versions of instructions for the processor;
334 it is used for building utilities like
335 <command>objdump</command>.</para>
336 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-binutils libopcodes">
337 <primary sortas="c-libopcodes">libopcodes</primary>
338 </indexterm>
339 </listitem>
340 </varlistentry>
341
342 </variablelist>
343
344 </sect2>
345
346</sect1>
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