When you unpack the binutils archive file, you will get a directory
called something like `binutils-XXX', where XXX is the number of the
-release. (Probably 2.11.2 or higher). This directory contains
+release. (Probably 2.13 or higher). This directory contains
various files and sub-directories. Most of the files in the top
directory are for information and for configuration. The actual
source code is in sub-directories.
directory.
+Native Language Support
+=======================
+
+By default Native Language Support will be enabled for binutils. On
+some systems however this support is not present and can lead to error
+messages such as "undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'" when
+building there tools. If that happens the NLS support can be disabled
+by adding the --disable-nls switch to the configure line like this:
+
+ ../binutils-XXX/configure --disable-nls
+
+
If you don't have ar
====================
cd binutils
MAKE="${MAKE_PROG}"
export MAKE
-${MAKE} $* ar_DEPENDENCIES= ar_LDADD='../bfd/*.o `cat ../libiberty/required-list ../libiberty/needed-list | sed -e "s,\([^ ][^ ]*\),../libiberty/\1,g"` `if test -f ../intl/gettext.o; then echo '../intl/*.o'; fi`' ar
+${MAKE} $* ar_DEPENDENCIES= ar_LDADD='../bfd/*.o ../libiberty/*.o `if test -f ../intl/gettext.o; then echo '../intl/*.o'; fi`' ar
This script will build an ar program in binutils/ar. Move binutils/ar
into a directory on your PATH. After doing this, you can run make as
Porting
=======
-Binutils-2.11 supports many different architectures, but there
+Binutils-2.13 supports many different architectures, but there
are many more not supported, including some that were supported
by earlier versions. We are hoping for volunteers to improve this
situation.
The major effort in porting binutils to a new host and/or target
architecture involves the BFD library. There is some documentation
in ../bfd/doc. The file ../gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo (distributed
-with gdb-4.x) may also be of help.
+with gdb-5.x) may also be of help.
Reporting bugs
==============
Send bug reports and patches to:
+
+Please include the following in bug reports:
+
+- A description of exactly what went wrong, and exactly what should have
+ happened instead.
+
+- The configuration name(s) given to the "configure" script. The
+ "config.status" file should have this information. This is assuming
+ you built binutils yourself. If you didn't build binutils youself,
+ then we need information regarding your machine and operating system,
+ and it may be more appropriate to report bugs to wherever you obtained
+ binutils.
+
+- The options given to the tool (gas, objcopy, ld etc.) at run time.
+
+- The actual input file that caused the problem.
Always mention the version number you are running; this is printed by
running any of the binutils with the --version option. We appreciate
-reports about bugs, but we do not promise to fix them.
+reports about bugs, but we do not promise to fix them, particularly so
+when the bug report is against an old version. If you are able, please
+consider building the latest tools from CVS to check that your bug has
+not already been fixed.
+
+When reporting problems about gas and ld, it's useful to provide a
+testcase that triggers the problem. In the case of a gas problem, we
+want input files to gas and command line switches used. The inputs to
+gas are _NOT_ .c or .i files, but rather .s files. If your original
+source was a C program, you can generate the .s file and see the command
+line options by passing -v -save-temps to gcc in addition to all the
+usual options you use. The reason we don't want C files is that we
+might not have a C compiler around for the target you use. While it
+might be possible to build a compiler, that takes considerable time and
+disk space, and we might not end up with exactly the same compiler you
+use.
+
+In the case of a ld problem, the input files are .o, .a and .so files,
+and possibly a linker script specified with -T. Again, when using gcc
+to link, you can see these files by adding options to the gcc command
+line. Use -v -save-temps -Wl,-t, except that on targets that use gcc's
+collect2, you would add -v -save-temps -Wl,-t,-debug. The -t option
+tells ld to print all files and libraries used, so that, for example,
+you can associate -lc on the ld command line with the actual libc used.
+Note that your simple two line C program to trigger a problem typically
+expands into several megabytes of objects by the time you include
+libraries.
+
+It is antisocial to post megabyte sized attachments to mailing lists, so
+please put large testcases somewhere on an ftp or web site so that only
+interested developers need to download them, or offer to email them on
+request. Better still, try to reduce the testcase, for example, try to
+develop a ld testcase that doesn't use system libraries. However,
+please be sure it is a complete testcase and that it really does
+demonstrate the problem. Also, don't bother paring it down if that will
+cause large delays in filing the bug report.
+
+If you expect to be contributing a large number of test cases, it would
+be helpful if you would look at the test suite included in the release
+(based on the Deja Gnu testing framework, available from the usual ftp
+sites) and write test cases to fit into that framework. This is
+certainly not required.
VMS
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