[Clfs-support] Problem configuring Binutils-2.17

[Joe Ciccone]

richard at stuppi.com wrote:
> I'm having a problem setting up the configuration for Binutils-2.17 as
> per the instructions in CLFS 1.0.0.
>
> CLFS_HOST="i386-cross-linux-gnu"
> CLFS_TARGET="i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> The command is:
> ../binutils-2.17/configure --prefix=/cross-tools  \
> --host=${CLFS_HOST} --target=${CLFS_TARGET}
> --with-lib-path=/tools/lib \ --disable-nls --enable-shared
> --disable-multilib
>
> The message is:
> configure: warning: --host=i386-cross-linux-gnu: invalid host type
> configure:error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Richard
>
You need a newline after the \. The \ indicates that the command is to
be continued onto the following line. If you're typing it out you can
omit the \ or just hit enter after the \.