[arch-dev-public] [signoff] binutils-2.21 toolchain rebuild

[Jan Steffens]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Here is a summary of the changes:
>
> binutils-2.21-1
>  - major upstream update
>  - provide gold linker as ld.gold (default remains the usual bfd linker)
>
> glibc-2.12.2-1
>  - *minimum kernel version required = 2.6.27*
>  - bump to latest upstream
>  - build completely outside source directory
>  - remove patches included upstream
>  - update patch for origin privilege exploit from Fedora
>  - keep scsi.h
>  - provide gai.conf (FS#21742)
>
> linux-api-headers-2.6.36.2-1
>  - bump to latest upstream
>  - remove scsi.h (back in glibc)
>
> gcc-4.5.2-1
>  - upstream update
>  - removed de_DE check as
>  - fix/clarify some pkgdesc values
>
> libtool-2.4-2
>  - gcc verbump rebuild
>
>
> You can see the current toolchain testsuite status at
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Toolchain .  There are some
> failures there that I am still looking into, but nothing to be concerned
> about...
>
> One binutils issues that people may want to keep an eye out for is
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12327 .  This only affects
> people building kernels with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y (not used in the Arch
> kernels) who will get a boot panic.
>
> Other than that, the binutils update seems relatively issue free.  I have
> been running it on my system for the last week while waiting on the glibc
> and gcc releases without noticing any issues.
>
> Allan
>

Seems to work fine, signoff both.