How to test binutils?
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Wed May 5 17:30:00 GMT 2004
Hi Houda,
>Thank you very much for your answer Nick,
>Do i have to write all this files before testing any
>one?
>
>
Yes. You can test to see if an individual file will just compile
without needing the other files, but in order to build any of the
binutils (gas, ld, objdump, etc) you are going to need all of these
files. Oh and you will probably need to create an include/elf/<name.h>
file as well.
The good news is that you can use the existing files in these
directories as examples of how to create the new files. Simply choose a
port that you think is quite similar to your own (same size
instructions, similar endian-ness, etc) and look to see what files were
created for that port and what they contain.
>I want to know if there is the only method for
>testing?
>So, I can not for example just making a makefile.
>Can i test without building cross-target?
>
>
Sorry no. The makefiles are automatically generated by the configure
scripts. So you need to run configure (and hence attempt to build a
cross-targeted toolchain) in order to create the makefiles. You can
break this down however. For example you do not need to create the
files in ld/ in order to build GAS. Similarly you do not need the files
in gas/ in order to build the linker. You will need the files in bfd/
opcodes/ and include/elf though for both the assembler, the linker and
the other binary utilities.
Cheers
Nick
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