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 .TH crosstool-NG 1 "@@CT_DATE@@" "version @@CT_VERSION@@" "User Commands"

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 .SH NAME

 ct-ng, crosstool-NG \- Build cross-toolchains

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 .SH SYNOPSIS

 .B ct-ng ACTION

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 .SH DESCRIPTION

 Building a cross-toolchain can be a real pain.

 .PP

 .B crosstool-NG

 makes it easy to build cross-toolchains, and allows you to take all the juice

 out of your target by configuring the differents components of the toolchain

 accordingly to the targeted processor.

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 .SH ACTIONS

 Here are the most commonly used actions. For other actions, please see

 .I @@CT_DOCDIR@@/overview.txt

 .TP

 .B help

 Prints a little help text.

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 .TP

 .B menuconfig

 Configures

 .B crosstool-NG

 using a configurator menu very similar to that of the Linux kernel.

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 .TP

 .B oldconfig

 Apply options found in an existing

 .I .config

 file, and ask for newer options if there are any.

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 .TP

 .B saveconfig

 Save the current

 .B crosstool-NG

 configuration, and associated components' config files, into a sample. Samples

 are saved in their own sub-directory, named after the target's triplet, in the

 .I samples

 sub-directory of the current directory.

 If that was not clear:

 .I `pwd`/samples/${CT_TARGET}/

 Samples can be later recalled by calling

 .B ct-ng

 with the target triplet they represent.

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 .TP

 .B build

 Builds the configured toolchain.

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 .TP

 .B liststeps

 Lists all build steps available (see 

 .BR ENVIRONMENT,

 below).

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 .TP

 .B clean

 Remove files generated by

 .B crosstool-NG

 for itself (these are mostly the configurators' binaries).

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 .TP

 .B distclean

 Same as

 .B clean

 , but also removes the toolchain build directory, the downloaded files and the

 .I .config

 configuration file. The generated toolchain is left untouched, as well as

 samples which are not removed.

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 .TP

 .B regtest

 Calls the

 .B crosstool-NG

 regression test suite. All samples are build, and the regression test suite is

 run against every one of them.

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 .TP

 .B updatetools

 Updates the

 .I config.guess

 and

 .I config.sub

 scripts. These scripts are used by

 .B crosstool-NG

 to canonicalise the machines' name (host, build and target machines).

 .TP

 .B tarball

 Builds a tarball of the generated toolchain, also saving the scripts from

 .B crosstool-NG

 that are needed to rebuild the target, and also saving the tarballs of the

 componnents that were used.

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 .SH ENVIRONMENT

 .TP

 .B STOP, START

 Respectively stops and restarts the build just before this step. To restart a

 step, a previous build should have run at least to that step, or further.

 The list of steps is vailable with the action

 .BR liststeps .

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 .SH EXIT VALUE

 The

 .B ct-ng

 frontend is in fact a

 .BR make (1)

 script. See the man page for

 .BR make (1)

 to have the meaning of the exit values.

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 .SH BUGS

 As of today (@@CT_DATE@@), building tarballs is broken. It is difficult to

 foresee how every parts of

 .B crosstool-NG

 are going to be installed. Each parts is needed to build a tarball, as it

 contains all that is needed to rebuild the toolchain from scratch: toolchain

 components' sources,

 .B crosstool-NG

 configuration, but also all

 .B crosstool-NG

 scripts.

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 .SH SECURITY

 .B Don't run as root!

 Great care has been taken to avoid mistakes, but bug-free programs don't

 exist. During normal operation,

 .B crosstool-NG

 removes entire directories. If you run as root, and there is a bug or you

 mis-configured

 .BR crosstool-NG ,

 entire important directories could be removed (eg.

 .IR /usr ),

 although

 .B crosstool-NG

 will refuse to install in some well known critical directories.

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 .SH AUTHORS

 .MTO "yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr" "Yann E. MORIN" ""

 .URL "http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org" "" ""

 reordered

 .B crosstool

 (see section titled

 .BR "SEE ALSO" )

 scripts to be more easily maintainable, added the Kconfig configurator, some

 patches, support for linux headers installation, and support for uClibc-based

 toolchains.

 Please consult the file

 .I @@CT_DOCDIR@@/CREDITS

 for a list of contributors.

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 .SH SEE ALSO

 You can find more in-depth documentation in

 .IR @@CT_DOCDIR@@/overview.txt .

 Please have a look at the

 .URL "http://www.kegel.com/crosstool" "original crosstool" " by Daniel KEGEL"