Changelog:
Changes in 2.26:
* Add option to objcopy to insert new symbols into a file:
--add-symbol <name>=[<section>:]<value>[,<flags>]
* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures.
* Extend objcopy --compress-debug-sections option to support
--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF
targets.
* Add --update-section option to objcopy.
* Add --output-separator option to strings.
Issues found with existing distfiles:
distfiles/eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.0.1.zip
distfiles/fortran-utils-1.1.tar.gz
distfiles/ivykis-0.39.tar.gz
distfiles/enum-1.11.tar.gz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-libraries.tgz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-linux.tgz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-solaris.tgz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-system.tgz
No changes made to these distinfo files.
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
This rarely seems to be a problem, but is exposed by building mplayer on a
32-bit x86 platform with USE_CWRAPPERS=yes. Possibly with Linux tie-ins, my
NetBSD platforms are all 64 bit.
In the failing scenario mplayer attempts (at least at configure time) to use
"as" directly. This is wrapped by cwrappers, which attempts to execute $AS
explicitly.
The exec fails because $PREFIX/bin/as doesn't exist, and hasn't done for a
long time.
Correct all the tool paths to include the "g" prefix for all these tools.
hgnested is a Mercurial extension to work with nested repositories.
It was inspired by the forest extension.
The extension allows to apply common Mercurial commands to all the nested
repositories at once like pull, push etc. It also allows to fetch a complete
tree of repositories through ssh or http.
To enable the "hgnested" extension, create an entry for it in your hgrc, like
this:
[extensions]
hgnested =
See `hg help hgnested` for the complete list of commands.
For more information please visit the following website:
http://code.google.com/p/hgnested/
The gold linker is overly pedantic for dynamic references to symbols
with hidden visibility. It will spew error messages about weak symbols
in libc.so that ld.bfd does not complain about. Until the bug is resolved
disable the hidden symbol warnings. These warning also cause > 200
false failures in the gcc gnat.dg testsuite.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15574
This patch will keep the internal symbol warnings but suppress those
regaring symbols with hidden visibility because they aren't considered
errors by the bfd linker.
The Gold linker defaults to the use of --new-dtags which uses DT_RUNPATH
instead of DT_RPATH. In previous version of binutils, --new-dtags would
write set both DT_RUNPATH and DT_PATH, but not anymore. The problem is
that neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD runtime linkers properly handle it
AFAICT. Use macros to make DT_RPATH get set when -rpath switch is used
so that linked libraries can get found on these platforms.
Similarly, it appears that DT_INIT_ARRAY tags are also not handled by
rtld, so don't use these tags by default otherwise C++ will not link
on these platforms.
The copy-as-needed attribute has been left at its binutils default of
--no-copy-dt-needed. This has been the default since binutils 2.22.
The gold linker isn't a default option on binutils. Change the Makefile
to make gold build on recent *BSD. Tested on NetBSD 6.1.4 and OpenBSD 5.5.
Gold is known to build on FreeBSD although FreeBSD 10 may need additional
patches. Gold is part of the system binutils on DragonFly.
binutils:
Changes in 2.24:
* Objcopy now supports wildcard characters in command line options that take
section names.
* Add support for Altera Nios II.
gas:
Changes in 2.24:
* Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor.
* Add -gdwarf-sections command line option to enable per-code-section
generation of DWARF .debug_line sections.
* Add support for Altera Nios II.
* Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor.
* Add support for the v850e3v5.
* Remove assembler support for MIPS ECOFF targets.
ld:
Changes in 2.24:
* Add LOG2CEIL() builtin function to the linker script language
* Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor.
* Add support for Altera Nios II.
* Add support for the V850E3V5 architecture.
* Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor.
* --enable-new-dtags no longer generates old dtags in addition to new dtags.
* Remove linker support for MIPS ECOFF targets.
* Add ALIGN_WITH_INPUT to the linker script language to force the alignment of
an output section to use the maximum alignment of all its input sections.
a) refer 'perl' in their Makefile, or
b) have a directory name of p5-*, or
c) have any dependency on any p5-* package
Like last time, where this caused no complaints.
to be necessary any more. Ordinarily it wouldn't hurt to leave it, but it
can cause cyclic dependencies if binutils is required by gcc, and this will
suffice in lieu of a proper fix for that problem.
