[arch-dev-public] [signoff] binutils-2.21-4 and glibc-2.13-3

[Gaetan Bisson]

[2011-02-09 19:15:58 +1000] Allan McRae:
> This is a rebuild to remove nopl instructions on i686 so those
> "i686" processors (e.g. Via C3 Nehemiah) that do not support it do
> not crash a lot.  This issue was supposed to be fixed upstream in
> binutils-2.21 so the old work around for this was removed from our
> glibc package.   Turns out, the binutils fix was not as much of a
> fix as was previously thought...
> 
> binutils-2.21-4:
>  - new snapshot from 2.21 branch
>  - add upstream patch to stop nopl usage on i686
> 
> glibc-2.13-3:
>  - rebuild to remove nopl instructions
> 
> 
> Before:
> > objdump -d /lib/ld-2.13.so | grep nopl | wc -l
> 264
> 
> After
> > objdump -d /lib/ld-2.13.so | grep nopl | wc -l
> 0
> 
> 
> glibc is probably the only package that needed rebuilt to remove
> those instructions as its build forces --mtune=i686 when
> --march=i686 is used.  Those package that listen to --mtune=generic
> are fine.

Signoff x86_64.

-- 
Gaetan