Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 03:44:59 +0900 (JST) From: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> To: imp@bsdimp.com Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, emaste@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r356379 - head/share/mk Message-ID: <20200106.034459.54741258810442187.yasu@utahime.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqTad2vCbiRfu0c9zd7M=oe8aaByE7gpsVv4MxrWLtj0g@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2BG4ctkn2AWhvFyAeB1R6aZo=HXcRASOUT4dzsHiust0w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqVFoY%2ByaTK4OXPPLfeYH8Xz%2B-mqQ0nhQrROn_g74pNMQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200106.025257.202876441661893679.yasu@utahime.org> <CANCZdfqTad2vCbiRfu0c9zd7M=oe8aaByE7gpsVv4MxrWLtj0g@mail.gmail.com>
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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r356379 - head/share/mk Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 12:17:21 -0600 > There are no firm plans at the moment. However, it looks like it's not used > except for powerpc. I'd expect that once the issues there are resolved with > clang, or that platform migrates to an external toolchain, binutils in > base's days will be numbered since it is GPL and the project has a long > term goal of being GPL free where possible. From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r356379 - head/share/mk Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 13:17:32 -0500 > There's no specific plan, but it is an ongoing goal. Only three > binutils tools are used (for bootstrapping and in the installed > system): as, ld, and objdump. > > BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP is enabled on x86, 32-bit arm, and powerpc. At > least both x86 archs still use GNU as for a few files; there's work in > progress to migrate to Clang's IAS for all assembly files. I am not > sure if bootstrap as actually gets used on arm or powerpc. objdump is > also built, but not used on any arch. ld is built on powerpc and still > being used there; it's not built on x86 or 32-bit arm. > > Making further progress depends on lld maturing (for powerpc) and > addressing the assembler issue. There's no commitment to removing > binutils for 13.0 but there is a reasonable probability we'll be able > to do so. Thank you for reply. I understand current status and hope binutils is successfully removed from base system before the release of 13.0. --- Yasuhiro KIMURA
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