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- <sect1 id="ch-system-binutils" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="binutils.html"?>
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>binutils</productname>
- <productnumber>&binutils-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&binutils-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
- <title>Binutils-&binutils-version;</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils">
- <primary sortas="a-Binutils">Binutils</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
- <para>The Binutils package contains a linker, an assembler, and other
- tools for handling object files.</para>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&binutils-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&binutils-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Binutils</title>
- <para>Verify that the PTYs are working properly inside the chroot
- environment by performing a simple test:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="test">expect -c "spawn ls"</userinput></screen>
- <para>This command should output the following:</para>
- <screen><computeroutput>spawn ls</computeroutput></screen>
- <para>If, instead, the output includes the message below, then the environment
- is not set up for proper PTY operation. This issue needs to be resolved before
- running the test suites for Binutils and GCC:</para>
- <screen><computeroutput>The system has no more ptys.
- Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen>
- <para>Suppress the installation of an outdated
- <filename>standards.info</filename> file as a newer one is installed later
- on in the Autoconf instructions:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -fv etc/standards.info
- sed -i.bak '/^INFO/s/standards.info //' etc/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
- <para>Apply a patch to prevent a build failure when using compiler optimizations:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&binutils-build-patch;</userinput></screen>
- <para>The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the
- source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v ../binutils-build
- cd ../binutils-build</userinput></screen>
- <para>Prepare Binutils for compilation:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="configure">../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared</userinput></screen>
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="make">make tooldir=/usr</userinput></screen>
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the make parameter:</title>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>tooldir=/usr</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Normally, the tooldir (the directory where the executables will
- ultimately be located) is set to <filename
- class="directory">$(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)</filename>. For
- example, x86_64 machines would expand that to <filename
- class="directory">/usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu</filename>. Because this is
- a custom system, this target-specific directory in <filename
- class="directory">/usr</filename> is not required. <filename
- class="directory">$(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias)</filename> 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).</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- <important>
- <para>The test suite for Binutils in this section is considered critical.
- Do not skip it under any circumstances.</para>
- </important>
- <para>Test the results:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
- <para>Install the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">make tooldir=/usr install</userinput></screen>
- <para>Install the <filename class="headerfile">libiberty</filename> header
- file that is needed by some packages:</para>
- <!-- <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h /usr/include</userinput></screen> -->
- <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h /usr/include</userinput></screen>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-binutils" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Binutils</title>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, elfedit, gprof, ld, ld.bfd, nm,
- objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, and strip</seg>
- <seg>libiberty.a, libbfd.{a,so}, and libopcodes.{a,so}</seg>
- <seg>/usr/lib/ldscripts</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
- <varlistentry id="addr2line">
- <term><command>addr2line</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Translates program addresses to file names and line numbers;
- given an address and the name of an executable, it uses the debugging
- information in the executable to determine which source file and line
- number are associated with the address</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils addr2line">
- <primary sortas="b-addr2line">addr2line</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="ar">
- <term><command>ar</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Creates, modifies, and extracts from archives</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ar">
- <primary sortas="b-ar">ar</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="as">
- <term><command>as</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>An assembler that assembles the output of <command>gcc</command>
- into object files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils as">
- <primary sortas="b-as">as</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="c-filt">
- <term><command>c++filt</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Used by the linker to de-mangle C++ and Java symbols and to keep
- overloaded functions from clashing</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils c-filt">
- <primary sortas="b-c++filt">c++filt</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="elfedit">
- <term><command>elfedit</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Updates the ELF header of ELF files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils elfedit">
- <primary sortas="b-elfedit">elfedit</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="gprof">
- <term><command>gprof</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Displays call graph profile data</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils gprof">
- <primary sortas="b-gprof">gprof</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="ld">
- <term><command>ld</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A linker that combines a number of object and archive files
- into a single file, relocating their data and tying up symbol
- references</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld">
- <primary sortas="b-ld">ld</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="ld.bfd">
- <term><command>ld.bfd</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Hard link to <command>ld</command></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld.bfd">
- <primary sortas="b-ld.bfd">ld.bfd</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="nm">
- <term><command>nm</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Lists the symbols occurring in a given object file</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils nm">
- <primary sortas="b-nm">nm</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="objcopy">
- <term><command>objcopy</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Translates one type of object file into another</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils objcopy">
- <primary sortas="b-objcopy">objcopy</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="objdump">
- <term><command>objdump</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Displays information about the given object file, with options
- controlling the particular information to display; the information
- shown is useful to programmers who are working on the compilation
- tools</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils objdump">
- <primary sortas="b-objdump">objdump</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="ranlib">
- <term><command>ranlib</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Generates an index of the contents of an archive and stores it
- in the archive; the index lists all of the symbols defined by archive
- members that are relocatable object files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ranlib">
- <primary sortas="b-ranlib">ranlib</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="readelf">
- <term><command>readelf</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Displays information about ELF type binaries</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils readelf">
- <primary sortas="b-readelf">readelf</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="size">
- <term><command>size</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Lists the section sizes and the total size for the given
- object files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils size">
- <primary sortas="b-size">size</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="strings">
- <term><command>strings</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Outputs, for each given file, the sequences of printable
- characters that are of at least the specified length (defaulting to
- four); for object files, it prints, by default, only the strings from
- the initializing and loading sections while for other types of files, it
- scans the entire file</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils strings">
- <primary sortas="b-strings">strings</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="strip">
- <term><command>strip</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Discards symbols from object files</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils strip">
- <primary sortas="b-strip">strip</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="libiberty">
- <term><filename class="libraryfile">libiberty</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Contains routines used by various GNU programs, including
- <command>getopt</command>, <command>obstack</command>,
- <command>strerror</command>, <command>strtol</command>, and
- <command>strtoul</command></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils libiberty">
- <primary sortas="c-libiberty">libiberty</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="libbfd">
- <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbfd</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The Binary File Descriptor library</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils libbfd">
- <primary sortas="c-libbfd">libbfd</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="libopcodes">
- <term><filename class="libraryfile">libopcodes</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A library for dealing with opcodes—the <quote>readable
- text</quote> versions of instructions for the processor;
- it is used for building utilities like
- <command>objdump</command>.</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils libopcodes">
- <primary sortas="c-libopcodes">libopcodes</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
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