lfs-book/appendixa/binutils-shortdesc.xml

<sect2><title>Contents of Binutils</title>

<para>(Last checked against version &binutils-contversion;.)</para>

<para>Binutils is a collection of software development tools containing a
linker, assembler and other tools to work with object files and
archives.</para>

<para>Binutils installs the following files:</para>

<sect3><title>Program Files</title>

<para>addr2line, ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, 
ranlib, readelf, size, strings and strip</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>Library Files</title>
<para>libbfd.[a,so] and libopcodes.[a,so]</para></sect3>

</sect2>