Estimated build time: 1.4 SBU Estimated required disk space: 94 MB |
(Last checked against version 2.12.1.)
Binutils is a collection of software development tools containing a linker, assembler and other tools to work with object files and archives.
Binutils installs the following files:
addr2line, ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings and strip
libbfd.[a,so] and libopcodes.[a,so]
(Last checked against version 2.11.2.)
Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, nm, ranlib, strip
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, cp, echo, expr, hostname, ln, ls, mkdir
mv, rm, rmdir, sleep, sort, touch, tr, true, uname, uniq
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Glibc: ldconfig
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Note: The testsuite for Binutils in this chapter is considered critical. Do not skip it under any circumstances.
This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting or modifying them when building Binutils.
It is recommended by the Binutils installation documentation to build Binutils outside of the source directory:
mkdir ../binutils-build cd ../binutils-build |
Now prepare Binutils for compilation:
../binutils-2.14/configure \
--prefix=/usr --enable-shared |
Compile the package:
make tooldir=/usr |
Normally, the tooldir (the directory where the executables end up) is set to $(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias), which expands into, for example, /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu. Since we only build for our own system, we don't need this target specific directory in /usr. That setup would be used if the system was used to cross-compile (for example compiling a package on an Intel machine that generates code that can be executed on PowerPC machines).
Test the results:
make check |
Install the package:
make tooldir=/usr install |
Install the libiberty header file that is needed by some packages:
cp ../binutils-2.14/include/libiberty.h /usr/include |