old-cross-binutils/binutils
1994-02-11 23:56:49 +00:00
..
testsuite Change all occurances of RUNTEST_FLAGS to RUNTESTFLAGS to be consistant with 1994-01-26 21:44:50 +00:00
.Sanitize Removed objdump.h 1994-01-26 03:46:17 +00:00
alloca.c Back from Intel with Steve 1991-03-21 21:29:07 +00:00
ar.1 fix NAME hyphen 1993-11-13 15:16:23 +00:00
ar.c * nlmconv.c (main): Use bfd_get_flavour instead of struct member. 1994-02-03 01:39:10 +00:00
arlex.l * arlex.l: Make work with lex, for what it's worth. 1992-05-22 20:41:25 +00:00
arparse.y Wed Apr 15 14:33:07 1992 Steve Chamberlain (sac@thepub.cygnus.com) 1992-04-15 21:36:37 +00:00
arsup.c Added EXTRACT command 1992-04-15 22:12:06 +00:00
arsup.h Wed Apr 15 14:33:07 1992 Steve Chamberlain (sac@thepub.cygnus.com) 1992-04-15 21:36:37 +00:00
binutils.texi binutils.texi: minor formatting updates for next release 1994-02-07 23:19:00 +00:00
bucomm.c Tue Jan 25 19:40:54 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com) 1994-01-26 03:45:21 +00:00
bucomm.h * bucomm.c (xmalloc, xrealloc): Deleted. 1994-01-09 20:37:30 +00:00
c++filt.1 fix NAME hyphen 1993-11-13 15:16:23 +00:00
ChangeLog * objcopy.c (strip_main, copy_main): Add missing 'break' in switch. 1994-02-11 23:56:49 +00:00
ChangeLog.mpw Mon Jan 31 18:52:47 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com) 1994-02-01 03:23:19 +00:00
configure resync 1991-10-02 04:15:56 +00:00
configure.bat DJ renaming 1992-02-21 23:06:30 +00:00
configure.in * Makefile.in (INCLUDES): Add -I../bfd for sysdep.h and bfd.h. 1993-06-07 19:45:12 +00:00
filemode.c Initial revision 1991-03-21 21:29:06 +00:00
gmalloc.c Back from Intel with Steve 1991-03-21 21:29:07 +00:00
is-ranlib.c Initial revision 1991-10-07 23:14:25 +00:00
is-strip.c Initial revision 1991-11-18 08:04:02 +00:00
Makefile.in Change all occurances of RUNTEST_FLAGS to RUNTESTFLAGS to be consistant with 1994-01-26 21:44:50 +00:00
maybe-ranlib.c Initial revision 1991-10-07 23:14:25 +00:00
maybe-strip.c Initial revision 1991-11-18 08:04:02 +00:00
mpw-build.in Mon Jan 31 18:52:47 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com) 1994-02-01 03:23:19 +00:00
mpw-make.in Mon Jan 31 18:52:47 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com) 1994-02-01 03:23:19 +00:00
nlmconv.1 nlmconv.1: minor fix 1994-02-07 23:07:38 +00:00
nlmconv.c * nlmconv.c (main): Use bfd_get_flavour instead of struct member. 1994-02-03 01:39:10 +00:00
nlmconv.h Checkpoint of NLM conversion program. 1993-08-10 17:49:44 +00:00
nlmheader.y * nlmconv.c (debug, unlink_on_exit): New static variables. 1993-12-10 05:33:49 +00:00
nm.1 fix NAME hyphen 1993-11-13 15:16:23 +00:00
nm.c More changes to print ambiguous matches and use the 1994-02-03 13:08:29 +00:00
not-ranlib.c Initial revision 1991-10-07 23:14:25 +00:00
not-strip.c Initial revision 1991-11-18 08:04:02 +00:00
objcopy.1 * objcopy.c (filter_bytes): New function. 1994-01-26 22:11:18 +00:00
objcopy.c * objcopy.c (strip_main, copy_main): Add missing 'break' in switch. 1994-02-11 23:56:49 +00:00
objdump.1 * binutils.texi: Add a chapter summarizing the ways to select 1994-01-06 19:49:06 +00:00
objdump.c * objdump.c (dump_section_stabs, read_section_stabs, 1994-02-03 22:21:28 +00:00
ranlib.1 fix NAME hyphen 1993-11-13 15:16:23 +00:00
ranlib.sh Initial revision 1991-10-07 23:14:25 +00:00
README * Makefile.in: Set VERSION to 2.1. 1993-02-25 03:48:13 +00:00
sanity.sh remove temporary directory when finished 1992-05-06 18:10:11 +00:00
size.1 * binutils.texi: Add a chapter summarizing the ways to select 1994-01-06 19:49:06 +00:00
size.c More changes to print ambiguous matches and use the 1994-02-03 13:08:29 +00:00
strings.1 * binutils.texi: Add a chapter summarizing the ways to select 1994-01-06 19:49:06 +00:00
strings.c * nlmconv.c (main), objcopy.c (copy_file): Print matching formats 1994-02-03 00:25:30 +00:00
strip.1 * binutils.texi: Add a chapter summarizing the ways to select 1994-01-06 19:49:06 +00:00
TODO o - size 1993-06-14 20:17:35 +00:00
version.c * Makefile.in, ar.c, bucomm.c, copy.c, cplus-dem.c, filemode.c, 1991-10-16 18:57:08 +00:00

This is a beta release of a completely rewritten binutils distribution.
The linker (ld) has been moved into a separate directory,
which should be ../ld.  Linker-specific notes are in ../ld/README.

These programs have been tested on various architectures.
Most recently tested are sun3 and sun4s running sunos4,
as well as Sony News running newsos3.
However, since this is a beta release taken directly from an
evolving source tree, there might be some problems.  In particular,
the programs have not been ported to as many machines as the
old binutils.  There are also features of the old versions
that are missing on the new programs.  We would appreciate
patches to make things run on other machines; especially welcome
are fixes for what used to work on the old programs!
(See ./TODO, as well a ../bfd/TODO and ../ld/TODO.)

Recent changes are in ./NEWS.

Unpacking and Installation -- quick overview
==========================

In this release, the binary utilities, the linker, the generic GNU include
files, the BFD ("binary file description") library, gprof, and getopt all
have directories of their own underneath the binutils-2.1 directory.
The idea is that a variety of GNU tools can
share a common copy of these things.  Configuration scripts and
makefiles exist to cruise up and down this directory tree and
automatically build all the pieces in the right order.

When you unpack the binutils-2.1.tar.Z file, you'll get a directory called
something like `binutils-2.1', which contains:

	DOC.configure  README         config/        configure*     ld/
	Makefile       bfd/           config.status* configure.in   libiberty/
	Makefile.in    binutils/      config.sub     include/       texinfo/

To build binutils, you can just do:

	cd binutils-2.1
	./configure [ --with-minimal-bfd=yes ]
	make
	make install # copies the programs files into /usr/local/bin by default.

The --with-minimal-bfd-yes flag is a temporary kludge.  Using it makes
the executables smaller, at the price of only being able to handle
the default binary file format.  A more flexible mechanism is planned.

This will configure and build all the libraries as well as binutils
and the linker.

The binutils can be used in a cross-development environment.
The file DOC.configure contains more information.

Porting
=======
Binutils-2.1 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.

If your system uses some variant of old-style a.out-format,
you can start with a copy of bfd/newsos3.c, and edit it to fit.
(You may also need to tweak bfd/aout-target.h.)
Alternatively, you could use the host-aout.c target.  This is a
special kludge that only works for native (non-cross) configurations.

Reporting bugs
==============
If you can't track down a bug and send suggestions/patches
for fixes, you should probably *not* be using this release.
We have little time to spend tracking down whatever random bugs you
may run into (except for configurations that Cygnus supports for
its customers).  The general place to send bug reports or patches
is to bug-gnu-utils@ai.mit.edu; you can also send them directly to
bothner@cygnus.com or sac@cygnus.com.