On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Allan McRae <allan@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.