From owner-freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Thu Sep 15 13:50:39 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-toolchain@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D9EBDBFB6 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:50:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpeddiem@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x244.google.com (mail-it0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2CABD35 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:50:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpeddiem@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x244.google.com with SMTP id x192so4580746itb.0 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:50:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=YKeJQXOcTpAH+fOjXtLx+qqCiZbtr+g06kKPaIPUIU4=; b=NSAR4fJkOds9vV1eIj4kjLZjI+jIR1w7qGvWoqpx2E9VmbXsDa61iEsTqbKwGK4Cp9 t5KsGrHckm1+7z9Q3fUxfuKBF7tos7CGL4GkQfbwJhpCtS+kyqYWBCmRfDS0xoWu1qpS vi2r/q02NtkIqSHXk0i4mIt8tDC1UOx5bEEqYDqH+DdnOB30meebwBMftMazNsSrHEkN yAVPMa3rCObj0aMrSYGnFu4AtdzXJqBJ1tsjJ5pxQtQkp5KvTkR18pCwDOkFP7+jEntK 5aG5DCuAO6r/HngjWLRC7EJc6moLrccSjD+hO8ofPV+q3svxG2JHcTbSizaLkam03wIu Ehrg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:from:date:message-id:subject :to; bh=YKeJQXOcTpAH+fOjXtLx+qqCiZbtr+g06kKPaIPUIU4=; b=kQj/Bk8dtpNO5edsAKQbOYZi+UgFZ6uFzAc9b71E9XaP52VuCk1L5XJ7t/g29eRUNS R6mLKG0H3y87Nl+7BM2nQor0VhgrlCA8D5/JboziTROuB7TgmEGfXRD/2ud4lVphSJrm EHWELe7Vs3IbYDmXVhJpBNWAD1iF9I4zBAKttmrB1KssO4+EiSf66Pmrtqkh4lz8gSKO yG+6AoGv/L0B7U6OhcU3me83W7xDpVMdRunFJOQWWizoilcE6uQ+zrjQPTiyAfnKSYRK hdSyDwl4Zduta0c8tHZPv4G8bGoNPj9U3VzHbPVvAHBiNbBo1QwBzP5glbQ1/t0TaHgN hCrg== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwOlx3kjnn3DaAJZdCZPOByftw6ulYg+Y4nCZrQRT4EI4aEmcfNetS/7WcRxO/N0oi2DDumRGacn+Agqew== X-Received: by 10.107.188.133 with SMTP id m127mr946781iof.200.1473947438155; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:50:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: carpeddiem@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.138.28 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:50:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Ed Maste Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:50:17 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: aE4TmrsMb3b3gROK4d4DO-cfZqU Message-ID: Subject: Retiring WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY option To: "freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Maintenance of FreeBSD's integrated toolchain List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:50:39 -0000 In FreeBSD 11 ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy is by default installed as objcopy. The option to switch back to GNU objcopy is available by setting WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY in make.conf. As part of the plan to remove the outdated in-tree binutils in FreeBSD 12 I intend to remove the WITHOUT_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY build knob, after FreeBSD 11.0 is released. The patch is available in a Phabricator code review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7337