Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:23:27 -0500 From: Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@mail.lifanov.com> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testing: elftoolchain tools Message-ID: <5492F16F.5010606@mail.lifanov.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2CTGePC71zjA_VZmQGiYJYXKKZSG-o9MehrWDNyxYRcww@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2CTGePC71zjA_VZmQGiYJYXKKZSG-o9MehrWDNyxYRcww@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/18/14 10:12, Ed Maste wrote: > We have a rather outdated version of binutils in the base system.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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I was running WITH_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS for a few days on head/amd64 and clang350-import/amd64. Things build and work as before. I'm not seeing any behavior differences. - Nikolai Lifanov
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