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diff --git a/chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml b/chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml index db33530f5..43c99423a 100644 --- a/chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml +++ b/chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml @@ -17,11 +17,6 @@ Estimated required disk space: &binutils-compsize-tools-pass1;</screen> because both Glibc and GCC perform various tests on the available linker and assembler to determine which of their own features to enable.</para> -<note><para>Even though Binutils is an important toolchain package, we are not -going to run the test suite at this early stage. First, the test suite framework -is not yet in place and second, the programs from this first pass will soon be -overwritten by those installed in the second pass.</para></note> - <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override default @@ -77,6 +72,14 @@ strictly speaking, <userinput>"-all-static"</userinput> is first passed to the <userinput>"-static"</userinput> on to the linker.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> +<para>Compilation is now complete. This is the point where we would normally +run the test suite. But as discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the +test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. However, even if we +still wanted to run the Binutils test suite, we're unable do so at this early +stage because the test suite framework is not yet in place. Not only that, the +programs from this first pass will soon be overwritten by those installed in +the second pass.</para> + <para>And install the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> |