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-Binutils Package
-================
-
-Building the Binutils Package
------------------------------
-
-If you want to temporarily change the targets for which Binutils is built, run
-the following commands before building:
-
- $ ./config clean
- $ PKG_TARGETS='list of architectures' ./config
-
-The default targets are listed in the `targets.in` file.
-
-To configure Binutils to be built for all default targets, run the following
-commands before building:
-
- $ ./config clean
- $ ./config
-
-Binutils Build System Mangling
-------------------------------
-
-[See `patches/01_pass-some-dirs-to-child-makes.patch` for some background
-information.]
-
-An alternative to `patches/01_pass-some-dirs-to-child-makes.patch` is to run
-make in each subdirectory ourselves instead of letting the top-level makefile do
-it for us. This way, we can leave the build system untouched and directly give
-each child make process the required macro settings.
-
-There are ten subdirectories in which we would need to run make (though of
-course we don't currently enable some of them, e.g. `gold`):
-
- * `bfd`
- * `opcodes`
- * `binutils`
- * `etc`
- * `gas`
- * `gold`
- * `gprof`
- * `intl`
- * `ld`
- * `libiberty`
-
-The disadvantage to this is a higher maintenance cost: we need to keep track of
-the subdirectories in which we need to run make. We need to watch out for
-changes to the dependencies of `install-host` and `install-target` in Binutils's
-Makefile.in (unlikely) and changes in the features (e.g. gold) we enable
-(likely).
-
-The trivial patch (which adds just three lines) should apply cleanly across
-Binutils releases, so it seems best to just stick with that.