Attempting to make a new Binutils port

Andrew Clark lavaplumes@gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 12:31:07 GMT 2020


Nick,

That's good advice, thanks.

Andrew



On Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 6:50 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> > I've started a new Binutils port for a custom processor that I am
> > designing.  I've started with the `bfd` directory.
> >
> > To do this, I need to modify the `Makefile.am` file,
>
> Actually I would advise against this.  Just modify the Makefile.in
> file for now.  Get your port working.  Then once that is done, work
> on updating the automake/autoconf files.
>
> Once you are ready to modify the build system, Andreas's advice about
> configuring with --enable-maintainer-mode is the way to go.  That will
> correctly rebuild all of the necessary files, once you have the right
> tools installed.
>
> Cheers
>   Nick
>
>
>


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