| 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2><sect2><title>Installation of Binutils</title><para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed itsdefault optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that overridedefault optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsettingor modifying them when building binutils.</para><para>It is recommended by the Binutils installation documentation to buildBinutils outside of the source directory:</para><para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../binutils-build &&cd ../binutils-build</userinput></screen></para><para>Next, prepare Binutils to be compiled:</para><para><screen><userinput>../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared</userinput></screen></para><para>Continue with compiling the package:</para><para><screen><userinput>make tooldir=/usr</userinput></screen></para><para>Normally, the <emphasis>tooldir</emphasis> (the directory where theexecutables end up) is set to $(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias) which expandsinto, for example, /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu. Since we only build for ourown system, we don't need this target specific directory in /usr. Thatsetup would be used if the system was used to cross-compile (for examplecompiling a package on the Intel machine that generates code that can beexecuted on Apple PowerPC machines).</para><para>Install the package:</para><para><screen><userinput>make tooldir=/usr install</userinput></screen></para><para>Install the info pages:</para><para><screen><userinput>make tooldir=/usr install-info</userinput></screen></para><para>Some packages require the <emphasis>libiberty</emphasis> headerin order to build. To honor those packages, install the file:</para><para><screen><userinput>cp ../binutils-&binutils-version;/include/libiberty.h /usr/include</userinput></screen></para></sect2>
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