Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:21:08 -0500 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Merge of binutils 2.17 Message-ID: <AANLkTimWqn5USdqA7xtTxJ_nETyME5tj5tjx3oWpWGME@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D277E4B.1030006@FreeBSD.org> References: <4D277E4B.1030006@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > For some time, I have been working on importing a newer version of > binutils into -current. This updates our quite ancient 2.15 version to > the last version available under GPLv2, 2.17.50. (Special thanks to > Nathan Whitehorn for his valuable feedback.) > > As far as I know, all issues building and running the base system with > this version of binutils have been solved, so I am planning to merge it > into -current in approximately one week (e.g. Friday, 2011-01-14). > > If you want to test, please checkout the project branch: > > svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/binutils-2.17 > > or apply the following diff to r217118 or later (warning: very large > diff, might need handholding to apply successfully, and use -E while > patching): > > http://www.andric.com/freebsd/binutils/binutils-2.17-r217118-1.diff.xz > > Then build world and kernel from the resulting source tree, and install > them. There should be no directly visible changes, except for the newer > version number reported by as(1), ld(1) and so on: > > 2.17.50 [FreeBSD] 2007-07-03 > > Please report any problems with either the base system, or ports that > come up as a result of this binutils update. > In the main directory http://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/binutils-2.17/ all of the Text files are seen as Binary files by Firefox in Linux , then , instead of displaying them , it is starting a download dialog about a binary file . It is likely that , the others in sub directories are the same . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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