Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:57:47 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP: Merge of binutils 2.17 Message-ID: <4D277E4B.1030006@FreeBSD.org>
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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.
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