lfs/chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml

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    <productname>binutils-pass1</productname>
    <productnumber>&binutils-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&binutils-url;</address>
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  <title>Binutils-&binutils-version; - Pass 1</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-tools-binutils-pass1">
    <primary sortas="a-Binutils">Binutils</primary>
    <secondary>tools, pass 1</secondary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

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    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&binutils-tmpp1-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&binutils-tmpp1-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
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  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Cross Binutils</title>

    <note><para>Go back and re-read the notes in the section titled <xref
    linkend="ch-tools-generalinstructions"/>.
    Understanding the notes labeled important can save you a lot
    of problems later.</para></note>

    <para>It is important that Binutils be the first package compiled
    because both Glibc and GCC perform various tests on the available
    linker and assembler to determine which of their own features to
    enable.</para>

    <para>The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils
    in a dedicated build directory:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v build
cd       build</userinput></screen>

    <note>
      <para>In order for the SBU values listed in the rest of the book
      to be of any use, measure the time it takes to build this package from
      the configuration, up to and including the first install. To achieve
      this easily, wrap the commands in a <command>time</command>
      command like this: <userinput>time { ../configure ... &amp;&amp; make
      &amp;&amp; make install; }</userinput>.</para>
    </note>

    <para>Now prepare Binutils for compilation:</para>

    <screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=$LFS/tools \
             --with-sysroot=$LFS \
             --target=$LFS_TGT   \
             --disable-nls       \
             --enable-gprofng=no \
             --disable-werror    \
             --enable-new-dtags  \
             --enable-default-hash-style=gnu</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--prefix=$LFS/tools</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This tells the configure script to prepare to install the
          Binutils programs in the <filename
          class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--with-sysroot=$LFS</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>For cross compilation, this tells the build system to look in
          $LFS for the target system libraries as needed.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><envar>--target=$LFS_TGT</envar></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Because the machine description in the <envar>LFS_TGT</envar>
          variable is slightly different than the value returned by the
          <command>config.guess</command> script, this switch will tell the
          <command>configure</command> script to adjust binutil's build system
          for building a cross linker.  </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--disable-nls</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the
          temporary tools.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--enable-gprofng=no</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This disables building gprofng which is not needed for the
          temporary tools.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This prevents the build from stopping in the event that there
          are warnings from the host's compiler.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--enable-new-dtags</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This makes the linker use the <quote>runpath</quote> tag for
          embedding library search paths into executables and shared libraries,
          instead of the traditional <quote>rpath</quote> tag.  It makes
          debugging dynamically linked executables easier and works around
          potential issues in the test suite of some packages.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--enable-default-hash-style=gnu</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>By default, the linker would generate both the GNU-style
          hash table and the classic ELF hash table for shared libraries and
          dynamically linked executables.  The hash tables are only intended
          for a dynamic linker to perform symbol lookup.  On LFS the dynamic
          linker (provided by the Glibc package) will always use the
          GNU-style hash table which is faster to query.  So the classic
          ELF hash table is completely useless.  This makes the linker
          only generate the GNU-style hash table by default, so we can avoid
          wasting time to generate the classic ELF hash table when we build
          the packages, or wasting disk space to store it.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title/>

    <para>Details on this package are located in
    <xref linkend="contents-binutils" role="."/></para>

  </sect2>

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