Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:24:58 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r356379 - head/share/mk Message-ID: <e60d39a0e9c5a9d3842912af443cf1c6238fade1.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2BG4ctkn2AWhvFyAeB1R6aZo=HXcRASOUT4dzsHiust0w@mail.gmail.com> References: <202001051659.005GxOOa013759@repo.freebsd.org> <CAPyFy2CvVQ8e8rRvHsB76qNz2_eL8c1EMpKP0z2vCbfWPn10hg@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfqVFoY%2ByaTK4OXPPLfeYH8Xz%2B-mqQ0nhQrROn_g74pNMQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200106.025257.202876441661893679.yasu@utahime.org> <CAPyFy2BG4ctkn2AWhvFyAeB1R6aZo=HXcRASOUT4dzsHiust0w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 13:17 -0500, Ed Maste wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 12:53, Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> > wrote: > > > > Just out of curiosity, is there any retirement plan for binutils in > > base system at the moment? > > 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. > I just set WITHOUT_BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP in src.conf and did an arm32 crossbuild from amd64 after an rm -rf in $objdir, and both kernel and world built successfully. -- Ian > 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.
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