From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 21:21:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53517106566B for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:21:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2398FC15 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:21:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so17855055iwn.13 for ; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:21:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=R+kz2ySI5bA8PD9DvQs7ps5WEl+itgK5jrgyoEGMYYE=; b=qDEk8dIY1zDO9+Y6+zPTCo50hzUNgLMz87AQiarL57jgSfNgbtcXqAd6FDO/M3tQz1 U9m7FP0awGgUN6ayilepgM7qpPlMio3rFHZt4ZPhmO6Up0Az8CuEuP7mUJfKttFtEApC 9KRPDr8Rg8yfdaqbfPO0J/Mct9OdMtlnhY4t0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=nAZjL7Oehx5yXVyBxgQxjHDjPzun8Y3xqRbbpem45WERS3ZOSOift/baNhVnL4Hl3E 1XRGvPSQ5DYu+B6WsAnnGyNzwkgNzAUfWCrwhPihRzaAwD+3r+OcXLOZxKTzFIAkRwYJ LGKZE8bxPPSemXxuh22TKGe5VBOgJREe4BsGM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.36.198 with SMTP id u6mr26264897ibd.100.1294435268538; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.79.197 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:21:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D277E4B.1030006@FreeBSD.org> References: <4D277E4B.1030006@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:21:08 -0500 Message-ID: From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Dimitry Andric Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Merge of binutils 2.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:21:09 -0000 On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Hi all, > > For some time, I have been working on importing a newer version of > binutils into -current. This updates our quite ancient 2.15 version to > the last version available under GPLv2, 2.17.50. (Special thanks to > Nathan Whitehorn for his valuable feedback.) > > As far as I know, all issues building and running the base system with > this version of binutils have been solved, so I am planning to merge it > into -current in approximately one week (e.g. Friday, 2011-01-14). > > If you want to test, please checkout the project branch: > > svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/binutils-2.17 > > or apply the following diff to r217118 or later (warning: very large > diff, might need handholding to apply successfully, and use -E while > patching): > > http://www.andric.com/freebsd/binutils/binutils-2.17-r217118-1.diff.xz > > Then build world and kernel from the resulting source tree, and install > them. There should be no directly visible changes, except for the newer > version number reported by as(1), ld(1) and so on: > > 2.17.50 [FreeBSD] 2007-07-03 > > Please report any problems with either the base system, or ports that > come up as a result of this binutils update. > In the main directory http://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/binutils-2.17/ all of the Text files are seen as Binary files by Firefox in Linux , then , instead of displaying them , it is starting a download dialog about a binary file . It is likely that , the others in sub directories are the same . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk