GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

bin vs arm-none-eabi/bin

Asked by Jens Benner

Hi all,

I'm a newby and I just wonder whats the difference between the folders "bin" and "arm-none-eabi/bin" underneath the "4.7 2013q2" folder?

Thanks in advance
Jens

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Terry Guo (terry.guo) said : 		#1

Some of them are just hard link. They share same inode value, so they are same files. But some of them are not. I don't know the difference, but usually we use files under top level bin folder.

terguo01@terry-pc02:bin$ ls -lih
total 18M
51778645 -rwxr-xr-x 1 terguo01 terguo01 618K Aug 7 02:32 arm-none-eabi-addr2line
51778628 -rwxr-xr-x 2 terguo01 terguo01 643K Aug 7 02:32 arm-none-eabi-ar
51778627 -rwxr-xr-x 2 terguo01 terguo01 1.1M Aug 7 02:32 arm-none-eabi-as
51778633 -rwxr-xr-x 2 terguo01 terguo01 608K Aug 7 02:32 arm-none-eabi-c++

terguo01@terry-pc02:bin$ ls ../arm-none-eabi/bin/ -lih
total 9.0M
51778628 -rwxr-xr-x 2 terguo01 terguo01 643K Aug 7 02:32 ar
51778627 -rwxr-xr-x 2 terguo01 terguo01 1.1M Aug 7 02:32 as
51778624 -rwxr-xr-x 2 terguo01 terguo01 608K Aug 7 02:32 c++
51778624 -rwxr-xr-x 2 terguo01 terguo01 608K Aug 7 02:32 g++
51778620 -rwxr-xr-x 1 terguo01 terguo01 605K Aug 7 02:32 gcc

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TM (tm1234) said : 		#2

This might be of interest although it's not exactly complete or authoritative...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16102884/why-are-there-two-bin-folders-in-mingw-port-of-gcc-builds

Hope this helps

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