From owner-freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 15:13:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7795D0C; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x229.google.com (mail-ig0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 717D828B4; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f169.google.com with SMTP id hl2so929735igb.4; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:13:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=SkeiuxlMllPCCedntig5tW7cJGjhzmTBLKixwx6qWcc=; b=dN5XEi3ih8xv6I8SAAT9yQosD9rBp9cf76oq41+YJv9ZCV6lRSs1uyD7RrbzAGSm8/ I3RidRgR5r5vg2v6UejBb0f0jHCAZpicqClAqFlcIVPo7B/xPQpRCyzz97d3hFwKNuDQ flqWtjBYrRnX6kY7p1ViSiOT/t788hoIH3SA6msb1WY1uPUTRD5MJNRdVXQ6xyMFlVfc K+wkZPrYLgecBbzob+GEarMnUOtFuvu1+m/uRA7QSjwQSQblUNNb2ZS7iRB2u77VgaoW 8umF5Dz0bpuee6UxLTii9eb4xJ1KYaSlI0ATpdjf/COlXad98LX3z+e9JrmKGhky6hvZ EbrQ== X-Received: by 10.43.79.2 with SMTP id zo2mr2390943icb.78.1418915588894; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:13:08 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: carpeddiem@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.0.85 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:12:47 -0800 (PST) From: Ed Maste Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:12:47 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3Mwqy4DKS4CyZF0wjpFhoG3z2DM Message-ID: Subject: Call for testing: elftoolchain tools To: FreeBSD Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Maintenance of FreeBSD's integrated toolchain List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:13:09 -0000 We have a rather outdated version of binutils in the base system. As part of a project to update our toolchain I've started working on using some of the tools from the elftoolchain project. There is now a build knob to enable the use of the following tools: * addr2line * elfcopy (strip) * nm * size * strings The knob (in /etc/src.conf) is: WITH_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS=yes The binutils version is still used for as, ld, objcopy, objdump and readelf; future projects will handle these. The option is being tested in ports exp-runs on amd64 and i386, and has had basic sanity testing on arm64 and mips64. I'm interested in test reports across a variety of hardware architectures and use cases. If everything works as expected you should see no difference -- the tools should be drop-in replacements. -Ed