x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu

x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu

[Keith Emery]

Can anybody shed some light on why binutils is creating a separate 
folder hierarchy under a folder "x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu"?

The best information I could find was that these are the files that 
relate to 64bit architectures. But if I'm not building a multi-arch 
system, shouldn't everything be compiled for x86-64bit? I've looked 
around and tried to find a switch to tell binutils to only build for 
64bit. But I cant seem to find anything. Can anybody point me in the 
right direction?

Re: x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Keith,

> Can anybody shed some light on why binutils is creating a separate folder hierarchy under a folder "x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu"?

I think that we need to know more about what you are doing.

Can you show us exactly the steps that you are taking when you encounter this issue ?

> The best information I could find was that these are the files that relate to 64bit architectures. But if I'm not building a multi-arch system, shouldn't everything be 
> compiled for x86-64bit? I've looked around and tried to find a switch to tell binutils to only build for 64bit. But I cant seem to find anything. Can anybody point me in 
> the right direction?

Generally speaking, if a particular target supports both 32-bit and 64-bit
implementations then the binutils will automatically build support for both.
Normally however this should not be an issue.  If you only use the 64-bit
features of an architecture then the support for the 32-bit version will
just be ignored.

Cheers
   Nick