On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 16:02 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:

- removed de_DE check as

What's the reason for that? Doesn't gcc check for locale support using de_DE anymore?

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

 - provide gold linker as ld.gold (default remains the usual bfd linker)

Is this gold built with plugin support? This is one of the really nice features.

On 17/12/10 16:02, Allan McRae 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

Updates: binutils-2.21-2 - enable plugin and threading support in gold linker gcc-4.5.2-2 - enable linker plugin support. gcc will use ld(.bfd) linker by default but switch to the ld.gold linker when -fuse-linker-plugin is specified. Hopefully this has now hit the right balance where all the features of the gold linker can be used but the usual bfd linker still serves as our default linker. Allan

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