ELBA-2025-6581

ELBA-2025-6581 - binutils bug fix and enhancement update

Type:BUG
Impact:NA
Release Date:2025-06-09

Description


[2.41.53.0.3]
- Add binutils-orabug-38018827.patch.
- Fix ctf_dict_open clobbering errno.
- Backport of upstream commit:
- 14303d6295e libctf: archive, open: when opening, always set errp to
something.
- [Orabug: 38018827]
- Add binutils-orabug-38018828.patch.
- In kernel links, properly hide CTF types only if conflicting.
- Backport of upstream commits:
- 75e514cfa56 Revert libctf: fix linking of non-root-visible types
- 002957be18e libctf: dedup: improve hiding of conflicting types in the
same dict
- [Orabug: 38018828]
Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi
Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock
Reviewed-by: Elena Zannoni

[2.41-53.0.2]
- Backported updates for gprofng.
Reviewed-by: Bruce McCulloch

[2.41-53.0.1]
- Merge Oracle patches to 2.41-53.
Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi
Oracle history:
November-28-2024 Nick Alcock - 2.41-45.0.1
- Latest CTF changes from upstream
- add ctf_dict_set_flag, ctf_lookup_enumerator, ctf_lookup_enumerator_next,
ctf_arc_lookup_enumerator_next; consider enums with differing enumerators
to be conflicting
- add documentation to ctf-api.h
- allow modification of ctf_opened dicts and opening of foreign-
endian older dicts
- looking up types by name prefers non-bitfields if possible
- bugfixes to parent propagation, rewriting of existing dicts,
ctf_archive_count, CU-mapped links, and dumping and linking of
non-root-visible types.
- fix a bunch of small leaks and one big one (on ctf_open error)
- fix a write into freed memory after ctf_rollback and writeout
- internal improvements to serialization, name lookup, symbol
lookup, string handling, and more
- explicitly disable zstd support (enabling requires addition of zstd to
the .so scripts)

[2.41-53]
- Fix seg-fault in AArch64 linker when building u-boot. (RHEL-78233)

[2.41-52]
- Add support for more Intel APX relocs. (RHEL-74437)

[2.41-51]
- Fix AArch64 linker testsuite problems.

[2.41-50]
- Extend support for the arch14 and arch15 extensions to the s390 architecture. (RHEL-56896)

[2.41-49]
- Add support for the arch14 and arch15 extensions to the s390 architecture. (RHEL-56896)

[2.41-48]
- Restore LTO use when building binutils. (RHEL-53215)

[2.41-47]
- Temporary workaround for ppc64 gcc compilation bug. (RHEL-49348)

[2.41-46]
- Import fix for AArch64 DT_RELR support (PR 31924).
- More fixes for Intel's APX (part 1) extensions. (RHEL-44713)
- Total list of APX patches applied (so far):
- Feb 19 5190fa38286a5a6a664e21c04fde361b395d9f72 x86: support APX forms of U{RD,WR}MSR
- Feb 9 41e115853eef32304e3e6fcd7feb4ec116090ee0 x86/APX: with REX2 map 1 doesn't 'chain' to maps 2 or 3
- Feb 9 5a635f1f59ad08e572e36419f1145433fd670214 x86/APX: VROUND{P,S}{S,D} encodings require AVX512{F,VL}
- Jan 19 2519809009ed5e250ad9ed9b6184d9c45dba5029 x86/APX: be consistent with insn suffixes
- Jan 19 eea4357967b6182459d423c4d919a7cb0219604b x86/APX: VROUND{P,S}{S,D} can generally be encoded
- Jan 15 3037cefe56affe48ac53d85b9e33c2c3a408c41f opcodes: gas: x86: define and use Rex2 as attribute not constraint
- Jan 9 7c3df3c680c2bee0b17e60bfbadc751c67e05ed0 x86: add missing APX logic to cpu_flags_match()
- Jan 9 7c3df3c680c2bee0b17e60bfbadc751c67e05ed0 x86: add missing APX logic to cpu_flags_match()
- Jan 8 a0c9f938521a36b34a27740e5008e35f0ddd2b3f i386: Use .insn describe jmpabs's testcases.
- Jan 8 a0c9f938521a36b34a27740e5008e35f0ddd2b3f i386: Use .insn describe jmpabs's testcases.
- Jan 7 f322084c7c842fbfd8c3291ff3f8d114173b4674 i386: Correct adcx suffix in disassembler
- Dec 29 eed38d8a02b277825a682d8d1daeb0bcc4508b04 Fix x86-64: Add R_X86_64_CODE_4_GOTPCRELX
- Dec 29 3d5a60de52556f6a53d71d7e607c6696450ae3e4 x86-64: Add R_X86_64_CODE_4_GOTPCRELX
- Dec 29 302a296de0e83d6c320cc0f0d5dd1a1d73182009 x86: Append '#pass' to APX tests
- Dec 29 302a296de0e83d6c320cc0f0d5dd1a1d73182009 x86: Append '#pass' to APX tests
- Dec 29 2eda6e3ecdd0ea93586a532d9464e430f708334a x86: Don't use .insn with '/'
- Dec 29 2eda6e3ecdd0ea93586a532d9464e430f708334a x86: Don't use .insn with '/'
- Dec 28 ce9cddf5dd2a614815b1d9affa67c9419599ff63 Add tests for APX GPR32 with extend evex prefix
- Dec 28 cca90632f83d47bc7f913e098c4531e52327d272 Support APX JMPABS for disassemble
- Dec 28 ac32c879b26af580e29ecaa152e3d9d999f34caa Support APX pushp/popp
- Dec 28 a6d0019eb7fcd634e12b7bcc535d5181c47fc82a ld: Mention support for Intel APX relocations in NEWS
- Dec 28 a6d0019eb7fcd634e12b7bcc535d5181c47fc82a ld: Mention support for Intel APX relocations in NEWS
- Dec 28 80d61d8d614d68a0b1932ed3a86d4cda01e5633e Support APX GPR32 with rex2 prefix
- Dec 28 6967f19dcd3d2794976b2a193a0c30b626c92c3b Support APX NDD optimized encoding.
- Dec 28 6177c84d5edc2cb6b197f00bd06380b7b24a719f Support APX GPR32 with extend evex prefix
- Dec 28 5e2f0c9a5f3d467a341a0c3d579d9c6ee6daa4d1 gas: Mention initial support for Intel APX in NEWS
- Dec 28 3083f376435662c747ab946bb84e6e6698985610 Support APX NDD
- Dec 28 2b1d6655c5c62673547b9676d811ef58ce3f0d1e Created an empty EVEX_MAP4_ sub-table for EVEX instructions.
- Dec 28 08a98d4c1331cc726c8c76c14d9db34d6f0aadd6 Support APX Push2/Pop2
- Dec 22 3e4a511bee874d73f9f749cc8cf3bc748b4d47b5 x86-64: refuse 'high' 8-bit regs with .insn and VEX/XOP/EVEX encodings
- Dec 15 35266cb139697e00ee993118aa621fdac17e3f6e x86: fold assembly dialect attributes
- Jul 2 00a17c6ad068c95019e1f37cfc2d1b8aaebd6ecb Gold: Handle R_X86_64_CODE_4_GOTPC32_TLSDESC/R_X86_64_CODE_4_GOTTPOFF
- Jun 9 a533c8df598b5ef99c54a13e2b137c98b34b043c x86-64: Add R_X86_64_CODE_4_GOTTPOFF/R_X86_64_CODE_4_GOTPC32_TLSDESC
- Jun 8 3d5a60de52556f6a53d71d7e607c6696450ae3e4 x86-64: Add R_X86_64_CODE_4_GOTPCRELX
- Jun 8 4a54cb06585f568031dfd291d0fe45979ad75e98 gold: Handle R_X86_64_CODE_4_GOTPCRELX

[2.41-45]
- Bump release for June 2024 mass rebuild

[2.41-44]
- Fix building with documentation disabled. (RHEL-44615)

[2.41-43]
- Do not enable '-z separate code' by default - allow packages to choose to do it.
- Add fix for discarded section counting for AArcch64 DT_RELR relocs. (RHEL-42765)

[2.41-42]
- Add --rosegment option to BFD linker.

[2.41-41]
- Add support for RELR relocs to the AArch64 target. (RHEL-31846)

[2.41-40]
- Suppress gas comment test. (RHEL-19865)

[2.41-39]
- Fix execstack error patch. (RHEL-19865)

[2.41-38]
- Add section-ordering patch to bfd linker. (RHEL-36305)

[2.41-36]
- Fix verification of ld.bfd installation. (RHEL-30887)

[2.41-35]
- Enable cross builds. (RHEL-27750)

[2.41-34]
- Backport commits 5a635f1f59ad and 41e115853eef to fix some APX issues.
- Add top-level multilib.am file.

[2.41-33]
- Backport commit 4199cf1e152d in order to add support for IBM's power-11 architecture extensions.

[2.41-32]
- Suppress the x86 linker's p_align-1 tests in order to cope with a CentOS-10 kernel bug. (RHEL-22466)

[2.41-31]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

[2.41-30]
- Import commits 4a54cb06585f568031dfd291d0fe45979ad75e98 and 00a17c6ad068c95019e1f37cfc2d1b8aaebd6ecb to add APX support to GOLD.

[2.41-29]
- Import commit eed38d8a02b2 to update APX support. (#2259333)

[2.41-28]
- Import commits 5190fa38286a , 2519809009ed and eea4357967b6 to update APX support.

[2.41-27]
- Add support for Intel's APX (part 1) architecture extensions.

[2.41-26]
- Import libiberty demangling improvements in order to support gcc v14 mangling.

[2.41-25]
- Fix creation of DT_RELR relocs for PPC64LE. (#2258061)

[2.41-24]
- Use _fortify_level macro to control _FORTIFY_SOURCE.

* Thu Jan 11 2024 Amit Shah - 2.41-23
- Spec File: gprofng requires bison at build time

[2.41-22]
- Remove dependency upon zlib-static.

[2.41-21]
- Fix location of gprofng.rc

[2.41-20]
- Fix SPDX annotation.

[2.41-19]
- Have the gold linker ignore the --error-execstack and --error-rwx-segments options.

[2.41-18]
- Fix handling of Risc-V SUB_LEB128 relocation. (PR31179)

[2.41-17]
- Fix failure in binutils testsuite for RiscV architecture.

[2.41-16]
- Add support for Intel's AVX10.1 ISA.

[2.41-15]
- Disable errors for executable stacks (enabled too early by previous delta).

[2.41-14]
- Enable errors for executable stacks.

[2.41-13]
- Make the GOLD linker ignore the '-z pack-relative-relocs' option. (#2248936)

[2.41-12]
- Fix the bfd linker's generation of call stubs for large AArch64 binaries with BTI enabled. (#2241902)

[2.41-11]
- Fix merging strings when linking really big programs.

[2.41-10]
- Allow for x86_64 build environments that use a base ISA of x86-64-v3. (#2247296)

[2.41-9]
- Accept and ignore R_BPF_64_NODYLD32 relocations. (#2245296)

[2.41-8]
- Add ability to turn execstack warnings into errors.
- Enable warnings for rsx segments.

[2.41-7]
- Fix a potential NULL pointer derefence when parsing corrupt ELF symbol version information. (#2243769)

[2.41-6]
- Enable warnings about executable stacks by default.

[2.41-5]
- Fix the GOLD linker's handling of 32-bit PowerPC binaries. (#2234396)

[2.41-4]
- Add fixes for linker testsuite failures for the RISCV-64 target.

[2.41-3]
- More CI fixes.

[2.41-2]
- Tests: use uname -m instead of uname -i.

[2.41-1]
- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.41
- Retire: binutils-filename-in-readelf-messages.patch
- Retire: binutils-readelf-other-sym-info.patch
- Retire: binutils-fix-testsuite-failures.patch
- Retire: binutils-objcopy-note-merge-speedup.patch
- Retire: binutils-testsuite-fixes.patch
- Retire: binutils-reloc-symtab.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2023-1972.patch

[2.40-13]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild

[2.40-12]
- Spec File: migrated to SPDX license. (#2222113)

[2.40-11]
- Spec File: Change License field to use SPDX notation. (#2222113)

[2.40-10]
- Spec File: Add defines to enable rwx and execstack warnings.

[2.40-9]
- Spec File: Remove debug files from default package. (#2208360)

[2.40-8]
- GOLD: Stop an abort triggered by running dwp on a file with no dwo links. (#2192226)
- Spec File: Use _prefix. (#2192118)

[2.40-7]
- Spec File: Fix typo. (#2186396)
- BFD library: Fix illegal memory access when loading corrupt symbol version info. (#2186579)

[2.40-6]
- Linker: Do not associate allocated reloc sections with the .symtab section. (#2166419)

[2.40-5]
- Spec file: Rebuild libsframe.a with -fPIC enabled. (#2174841)

[2.40-4]
- Spec file: Add libsframe.a to the (fake) libbfd.so. (#2174841)

[2.40-2]
- Spec file: Remove duplicate gprofng debug file entries.
- Spec file: Fix testsuite failures for RiscV64.

[2.40-1]
- Rebase to 2.40.
- Retire: binutils-package-metadata.patch
- Retire: binutils-gas-dwarf-skip-empty-functions.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-38128-dwarf-abbrev-parsing.patch
- Retire: binutils-readelf-no-sections.patch
- Retire: binutils-libiberty-configure-compile-warnings.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2022-4285.patch

[2.39-10]
- Spec File: Add (disabled by default) support for cross-builds of the binutils.

[2.39-9]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild

[2.39-8]
- Speed up objcopy's note merging algorithm. (#29993)

[2.39-7]
- Fix a potential dereference of a NULL pointer. (#2152946)

[2.39-6]
- Fix compile time warnings of the configure test files in the libiberty directory. (#2144041)

[2.39-5]
- Fix configuration of s390x binutils so that it does not include support for extraneous targets. (#2139143)

[2.39-4]
- Fix readelf's decoding of files with no sections. (#2131609)

[2.39-3]
- Stop a potential infinite loop in the binutils DWARF parser. (#2122675)

[2.39-2]
- Move gprofng related files into the gprofng sub-package.

[2.39-1]
- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.39.
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-1010204.patch
- Retire: binutils-use-long-long.patch
- Retire: binutils-section-type.patch
- Retire: binutils-gas-loc-view.patch
- Retire: binutils-do-not-use-debuginfod.patch
- Retire: binutils-indirect-symbols.patch
- Retire: binutils-s390x-static-PIE.patch
- Retire: binutils-link-following.patch
- Retire: binutils-x86-non-canonical-references.patch
- Retire: binutils-ppc64-DT_RELR-relocs.patch
- Retire: binutils-ppc-gas-machine-directive.patch

[ - 2.38-24]
- Build with jansson when not bootstrapping.

[2.38-23]
- Add the --package-metadata option to the linkers. (#2099999)

[2.38-22]
- Fix a couple of x86_64 linker testsuite failures.

[2.38-21]
- Tweak the PowerPC assembler's handling of the .machine directive. (#2111082)

[2.38-20]
- Check and enable 64-bit bfd on aarch64 and riscv64.

[2.38-19]
- Restore the use of --enable-64-bit-bfd for the AArch64 and riscv64 targets.

[2.38-18]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild

[2.38-16]
- Fix a problem honouring readelf's -wE and -wN command line options.

[2.38-15]
- Fix a problem with PowerPC's handling of DT_RELR relocs. (#2095622)
- Move annobin data into a separate debuginfo file.

[2.38-14]
- Fix bugs preventing the linker tests from running.

[2.38-14]
- Fix bug in binutils.spec file that was causing the wrong linker flags to be used.

[2.38-13]
- Change the ld man page so that it says that --enable-new-dtags is the default. (#2090818)

[2.38-12]
- x86 linker: Disallow invalid relocations against protected symbols. (#2089358)

[2.38-11]
- Stop readelf and objdump from unnecessarily following links. (#2086863)

[2.38-10]
- Add support for generating static PIE binaries for s390x. (#2088331)

[2.38-9]
- Fix description of gold subpackage so that it does not include the Requires fields. (#2082919)

[2.38-8]
- Fix linker testsuite failures.

[2.38-7]
- Fix a bug handling indirect symbols. (PR 28879) (#2068343)

[2.38-6]
- Simplify the assembler's evaluation of chained .loc view expressions. [Second attempt] (#2059646)

[2.38-5]
- Add an option to objdump/readelf to disable accessing debuginfod servers. (#2051741)

[2.38-4]
- Simplify the assembler's evaluation of chained .loc view expressions. (#2059646)

[2.38-3]
- Do not export any windows tools (if they were built). (#2057636)

[2.38-2]
- Add support for specifying a section type in linker scripts. (#2052801)

[2.38-1]
- Rebase on GNU Binutils 2.38.

[2.37-25]
- Borrow a patch from the GCC package to stop libtool from inserting needless runpaths into binaries. (#2030667)

[2.37-24]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild

[2.37-23]
- Fix a potential illegal memory access parsing a COFF format file. (#2033716)

[2.37-22]
- Backport upstream patch to allow readelf to recognize packaging metadata note.

[2.37-21]
- Add support for the EFI format to the AArch64 target. (#2027515)

[2.37-20]
- Add ability to warn about multibyte characters in the assembler. (#2018848)

[2.37-19]
- Allows linker scripts to set the SEC_READONLY flag.

[2.37-18]
- Add ability to show unicode characters to display tools.

[2.37-17]
- Add upstream patch to use the directory name in .file 0, fixes ccache FTBFS
(bz#1996936)

[2.27-16]
- Remove leftover libtool files.

[2.27-15]
- Fix linker seg-fault compiling efivar libraries. (#2012247)

[2.27-14]
- Fix linker testsuite failures triggered by 2.27-13 patch. (#2008203)

[2.27-13]
- Default to an entry address of 0 for shared libraries. (#2004952)

[2.37-12]
- Disable LTO on arm. (#1918924)

[2.37-11]
- Enable -separate-code for all architectures, not just x86/x86_64.

[2.37-10]
- Allow configuring with autonconf 2.71. (#1999437)

[2.37-9]
- Fix a few testsuite failures.

[2.37-8]
- Backport upstream patch to fix fd exhaustion
- Resolves: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28138

[2.37-6]
- Ensure that the manual pages are generated. (#1989836)

[2.37-5]
- Fix a local change to readelf which resulted in a success exit code for non-existant files. (#1990817)

[2.37-4]
- Ensure that dir[0] contains pwd in gas generated DWARF-5 directory tables. (#1966987)

[2.37-3]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild

[2.37-2]
- Various fixes for testsuite failures.

[2.37-1]
- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.37.
- Retire: binutils-2.36-branch-updates.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2021-20197.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2021-3530.patch
- Retire: binutils-plugin-file-descriptors.patch
- Retire: binutils-ppc-weak-undefined-plt-relocs.patch
- Retire: binutils-ppc64le-note-merge.patch
- Retire: binutils-s390-arch14-insns.patch

[2.36.1-15]
- Enable the creation of .note.gnu.property sections by the GOLD linker for x86 binaries. (#1970961)

[2.36.1-14]
- Set clang bconf default based on %toolchain.
- Diable LTO when using clang.
- Disable check-rpath's test for standard runpaths.
- Make the existing tests have the gating effect.

[2.36.1-13]
- Increase number of file descriptors available to plugins. (#1918924)
- Remove uses of RPATH.

[2.36.1-12]
- Generate PLT relocs for weak undefined PPC function symbols. (#1960730)

[2.36.1-11]
- Enable file descriptor increase for plugin use.

[2.36.1-10]
- Enable use of new dtags.

[2.36.1-9]
- Fix stack exhaustion in the rust demangler. (#1956424)

[2.36.1-8]
- Add an explicit dependency upon autoconf 2.69. (#1942991)

[2.36.1-7]
- Extend vulnerability fix yet again. (#1925779)

[2.36.1-6]
- Fix merging ppc64le notes (again). (#1928936)

[2.36.1-5]
- Unretire the CVE 2021-20197 patch.

[2.36.1-4]
- Add support for the Z extensions to the s390x architecture.

[2.36.1-3]
- Fix merging ppc64le notes. (#1928936)

[2.36.1-2]
- Fix testsuite failures triggered by locally applied patches.

[2.36.1-1]
- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.36.1.
- Retire: binutils-2.35.1-update.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2021-20197.patch
- Retire: binutils-DWARF-5-line-number-parsing.patch
- Retire: binutils-LTO-fix.patch
- Retire: binutils-Power10-fixes.patch
- Retire: binutils-SHF_LINK_ORDER.patch
- Retire: binutils-aarch64-condbranch-relocs.patch
- Retire: binutils-add-sym-cache-to-elf-link-hash.patch
- Retire: binutils-attach-to-group.patch
- Retire: binutils-config.patch
- Retire: binutils-duplicate-sections.patch
- Retire: binutils-dwarf-DW_FORM_ref8.patch
- Retire: binutils-dwarf-type-sign-2.patch
- Retire: binutils-dwarf-type-sign.patch
- Retire: binutils-elf-add-objects.patch
- Retire: binutils-gas-auto-dwarf-5.patch
- Retire: binutils-gold-gnu-properties.patch
- Retire: binutils-plugin-as-needed.patch
- Retire: binutils-ppc-annobin-disassembly.patch
- Retire: binutils-recursive-debuglink-following.patch
- Retire: binutils-s390-build.patch
- Retire: binutils-strip-merge.patch
- Retire: binutils-testsuite-failures.patch
- Retire: binutils-warnings.patch

[2.35.1-34]
- Extend vulnerability fix again. (#1925779)

[2.35.1-33]
- Preserve debug information in libbfd.a and libopcodes.a. (#1924068)

[2.35.1-32]
- Extend vulnerability fix again. (#1913744)

[2.35.1-31]
- Enable PEP support for all targets. (#1920373)

[2.35.1-30]
- Extend vulnerability fix. (#1913744)

[2.35.1-29]
- Add support for DWARF-5 sections to the bfd linker's scripts. (#1922707)

[2.35.1-28]
- Fix a vulnerability in the smart_rename function. (#1913744)

[2.35.1-27]
- Fix failures is gas and ld testsuites.

[2.35.1-26]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild

[2.35.1-25]
- Update the BFD library to handle DWARF-5 line number ranges.

[2.35.1-24]
- Update the GOLD linker to handle x86 .note.gnu.property sections. (#1916925)

[2.35.1-23]
- Add a fix to gas to automatically enable DWARF-5 style file name tables.

[2.35.1-22]
- Add an option (currently disabled) to build a linker which generates new dtags.

[2.35.1-21]
- Ensure that bfd.h is the same for i686- and x86_64 versions of the devel rpm. (#1915317)

[2.35.1-20]
- Fix bug running readelf on an empty file. (#1903448)

[2.35.1-19]
- Fix bug running readelf on a file that cannot be read. (#1913589)

[2.35.1-18]
- Fix linking with multiple same-name sections. (PR 27100)

[2.35.1-17]
- Fix linking mixed SHF_LINK_ORDER and non-SHF_LINK_ORDER sections. (#1907945)

[2.35.1-16]
- NVR bump for toolchain rebuild

[2.35.1-15]
- Import fixes added to the 2.35 branch after the 2.35.1 release.

[2.35.1-14]
- Add support for DW_FORM_ref8 when parsing DWARF types. (#1893921)

[2.35.1-13]
- Extend fix for erroneous decoding of LEB128 values.

[2.35.1-12]
- Another correction for plugin as-needed patch. (#1889763)

[2.35.1-11]
- Correction for plugin as-needed patch. (#1889763)

[2.35.1-8]
- Really fix erroneous decoding of LEB128 values. (#1891171)

[2.35.1-7]
- Fix erroneous decoding of LEB128 values. (#188716)

[2.35.1-6]
- Make readelf and objdump recursively follow debug links. (PR 26595)

[2.35.1-5]
- Allow plugin syms to mark as-needed shared libs needed

[2.35.1-4]
- Fix various problems with Power10 support.

[2.35.1-3]
- Fix strip when merging multiple same-named sections. (#1885607)

[2.35.1-1]
- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.35.1 release.
- Retire: binutils-gas-dwarf-level-4.patch
- Retire: binutils-aarch64-plt-sh_entsize.patch
- Retire: binutils-ppc-rename-xvcvbf16sp-to-xvcvbf16spn.patch
- Retire: binutils-dwarf-5-fixes.patch

[2.35-14]
- Fix the PowerPC disassembler so that it ignores annobin symbols.

[2.35-13]
- Fix the handling of relocations for AArch64 conditional branches.

[2.35-12]
- Import fixes from GNU binutils mainline for handling DWARF-5 debug information.

[2.35-11]
- Rename the PPC xvcvbf16sp instruction to xvcvbf16spn.

[2.35-10]
- Re-enable LTO

[2.35-9]
- Disable LTO for bootstrapping purposes

[2.35-8]
- Fix building with LTO enabled.

[2.35-7]
- Set the sh_entsize field of the AArch64's PLT section to 0. (PR 26312)

[2.35-6]
- Disable LTO again, it causes 'ar' to segfault.

[2.35-5]
- Default to DWARF level 3 in the assembler.

[2.35-3]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild

[2.35-2]
- Disable LTO for now

[2.35-1]
- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.35. (#1854613)

[2.34-9]
- Fix more configure tests compromised by LTO.

[2.34-9]
- Fix configure test compromised by LTO. Add appropriate BuildRequires
and force rebuliding the configure files in the appropriate dirs
- Fix various warnings exposed by LTO.

[2.34-8]
- Switch to using %autosetup.

[2.34-7]
- Add BPF support to the s390x target. (#1825193)

[2.34-6]
- Enhance the error message displayed by the BFD library when it fails to load a plugin. (#1836618)

[2.34-5]
- Rebase to tip of GNU Binutils 2.34 branch, brining in LTO fixes.
- Retire: binutils-nm-lto-plugin.patch

[2.34-4]
- Fix seg fault when loading plugins via symlinks. (#1828587)

[2.34-3]
- Add support for the BPF target. (#1825193)

[2.34-2]
- Fix the plugin support architecture to allow proper symbol info handling. (PR 25355)

[2.34-1]
- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.34. (#1793098)
- Retire: binutils-improved-note-merging.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-17451.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-17450.patch
- Retire: binutils-addr2line-fixes.patch

[2.33.1-13]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

[2.33.1-12]
- Enable 64-bit BFD and PEP support for riscv. (#1794343)

[2.33.1-11]
- Improve the accuracy of addr2line. (#1760967)

[2.33.1-10]
- Re-enable strip merging build notes. (#1777760)

[2.33.1-9]
- Remove spurious code left in gold-mimatched-section-flags patch. (#1775750)

[2.33.1-8]
- Fix a buffer overrun in the note merging code. (#1774507)

[2.33.1-7]
- Fix a potential seg-fault in the BFD library when parsing pathalogical debug_info sections. (#1771669)
- Fix a potential memory exhaustion in the BFD library when parsing corrupt DWARF debug information. (#1771678)

[2.33.1-6]
- Stop objcopy from creating null filled note sections when merging notes.

[2.33.1-5]
- Strip: Do not merge notes unless explicitly requested to do so.

[2.33.1-4]
- Objcopy: Do not generate a failure exit status if note merging fails. (#1767937)

[2.33.1-3]
- Fix the verification of the installed linker symlink. (#1767000)

[2.33.1-2]
- Improve objdump's ability to merge GNU build attribute notes.

[2.33.1-1]
- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.33.1.
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-9073.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-9074.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-9075.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-9077.patch
- Retire: binutils-disassembling-efi-files.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-9071.patch
- Retire: binutils-gas-build-note-relocs.patch
- Retire: binutils-do-not-warn-about-debuginfo-files.patch
- Retire: binutils-do-not-merge-differing-SHF_EXCLUDE-groups.patch
- Retire: binutils-rh1736114.patch
- Retire: binutils-objcopy-gnu-build-version-notes.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-14250.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2019-14444.patch
- Retire: binutils-gcc-10-fixes.patch
- Retire: binutils-remove-old-formats.patch
- Retire: binutils-aarch64-gold-PLT-for-MOVW_ABS.patch

[2.32-27]
- Remove support for old file formats (ihex, tekhex, verilog) as they are a constant source of CVEs.

[2.32-26]
- Add an option to build using clang instead of gcc.

[2.32-25]
- Fix building with gcc-10.

[2.32-24]
- Fix potential integer overflow in readelf. (#1740470)

[2.32-23]
- Fix potential integer overflow in GOLD. (#1739491)

[2.32-22]
- Stop GOLD from seg-faulting on a corrupt input with a fuzzed section offset. (#1735605)

[2.32-21]
- Stop strip from complaining if the first build note is not a version note. (#1736114)

[2.32-20]
- Fix ld -Map not to produce corrupt ELF notes (#1736114)

[2.32-19]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild

[2.32-18]
- Stops the linker from merging section groups with different SHF_EXCLUDE flags. (#1730906)

[2.32-17]
- Stop the BFD library from complaining about sections found inside debuginfo files. (PR 24717)

[2.32-16]
- Stop gas from triggering a seg-fault when creating relocs for build notes. (PR 24748)

[2.32-15]
- Stop gold from aborting when it encounters input sections with the same name and different flags. (#1722715)

[2.32-14]
- Import fix for PR 23870 in order to help building Go binaries.

[2.32-13]
- Do not include ld.gold in the base binutils package. (#1703714)

[2.32-12]
- Remove hardcoded gzip suffix from GNU info pages

[2.32-11]
- Fix a stack exhaustion problem in libiberty's name demangling code. (#1680658)

[2.32-10]
- Disable ld.gold on RISC-V and fix file installation issues.

[2.32-9]
- Stop potential illegal memory access when disassembling an EFI binary. (#1685727)

[2.32-8]
- Fix requirements and use of the alternatives mechanism. (#1683408, #1683466)

[2.32-7]
- Move GOLD into a sub-package of BINUTILS.

[2.32-6]
- Stop potential illegal memory access when parsing a corrupt MIPS binary. (#1680676)

[2.32-5]
- Stop potential illegal memory access when parsing corrupt archives. (#1680670)

[2.32-4]
- Stop potential illegal memory access when parsing corrupt PE files. (#1680682)

[2.32-3]
- Improve objdump's handling of corrupt input files. (#1680663)

[2.32-2]
- Fix some bfd linker testsuite failures.

[2.32-1]
- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.32
- Retire: binutils-s390-partial-relro.patch
- Retire: binutils-note-merge-improvements.patch
- Retire: Retire: binutils-merge-attribute-sections.patch
- Retire: binutils-gold-discard-version-info.patch
- Retire: binutils-gas-input-matches-output.patch
- Retire: binutils-fix-testsuite-failures.patch
- Retire: binutils-do-not-provide-shared-section-symbols.patch
- Retire: binutils-disable-readelf-gap-reports.patch
- Retire: binutils-detect-corrupt-sym-version-info.patch
- Retire: binutils-delay-ld-script-constant-eval.patch
- Retire: binutils-clear-version-info.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-20002.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-17358.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.31-export-demangle.h.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.28-ignore-gold-duplicates.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.26-lto.patch

[2.31.1-23]
- Ensure that decompressed sections have the correct alignment. (#1678204)

[2.31.1-22]
- Rework the post uninstall stage to avoid mysterious error from ldconfig. (#1673912)

[2.31.1-21]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild

[2.31.1-20]
- Fix the assembler's check that the output file is not also one of the input files. (#1660279)

[2.31.1-19]
- Fix a memory leak reading minisymbols. (#1661535)

[2.31.1-18]
- Ensure that GOLD is linked with pthread library. (#1636479)

[2.31.1-17]
- Stop gold from warning about discard version information unless explicitly requested. (#1654153)

[2.31.1-16]
- Remove debugging fprintf statement accidentally left in patch. (#1645828)

[2.31.1-15]
- Allow OS specific sections in section groups. (#1639485)

[2.31.1-14]
- Fix a potential buffer overrun when parsing a corrupt ELF file. (#1632912)
- Add a .attach_to_group pseuo-op to assembler (for use by annobin). (#1630574)
- Stop the binutils from statically linking with libstdc++. (#1630550)
- Include gold testsuite results in test logs.
- Disable readelf's reporting of gaps in build notes. (#1623556)

[2.31.1-13]
- Delay the evaluation of linker script constants until after the configuration options have been set. (#1624751)

[2.31.1-12]
- Detect and report corrupt symbol version information. (#1599521)

[2.31.1-11]
- Remove the version information from a dynamic symbol that is being overridden. (#1614920)

[2.31.1-10]
- Improve objcopy's --merge-notes option. (#1608390)

[2.31.1-9]
- Rebuild with fixed binutils

[2.31.1-8]
- Move the .gnu.build.attributes section to after the .comment section.

[2.31.1-7]
- Fix a thinko in the merge patch.

[2.31.1-6]
- Fix a typo in the merge patch.

[2.31.1-5]
- Merge .gnu.build.attribute sections together. (#1608390)

[2.31.1-3]
- Extend gold linker patch to cover subsections of .gnu.build.attributes. (#1607054)

[2.31.1-2]
- Improve partial relro support for the s/390.

[2.31.1-1]
- Rebase to official 2.31.1 GNU Binutils release.
- Retire: binutils-2.22.52.0.1-export-demangle.h.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.30-allow_R_AARCH64-symbols.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-10372.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-10373.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-10534.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-10535.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-6323.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-6759.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-7208.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-7568.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-7569.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-7570.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-7642.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-7643.patch
- Retire: binutils-CVE-2018-8945.patch
- Retire: binutils-PowerPC-IEEE-long-double-warnings.patch
- Retire: binutils-debug-section-marking.patch
- Retire: binutils-gas-build-notes.patch
- Retire: binutils-gold-llvm-plugin.patch
- Retire: binutils-ifunc-relocs-in-notes.patch
- Retire: binutils-linkonce-notes.patch
- Retire: binutils-missing-notes.patch
- Retire: binutils-page-to-segment-assignment.patch
- Retire: binutils-revert-PowerPC-speculation-barriers.patch
- Retire: binutils-skip-dwo-search-if-not-needed.patch
- Retire: binutils-speed-up-objdump.patch
- Retire: binutils-strip-unknown-relocs.patch
- Retire: binutils-x86-local-relocs.patch
- Retire: binutils-x86-local-version.patch

[2.30.90-4]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

[2.30.90-3]
- Stop gold from complaining about annobin note relocs against symbols in sections which have been discarded. (#1600431)

[2.30.90-2]
- Revert fix for PR 23161 which was placing unversioned section symbols (_edata, _end, __bss_start) into shared libraries. (#1599521)

[2.30.90-1]
- Rebase to a snapshot of the soon-to-be-created 2.31 FSF release.

[2.30-26]
- Fix the generation of relocations for assembler created notes. (#1598551)

[2.30-25]
- Minor spec cleanups and fixes.

[2.30-24]
- When installing both ld.bfd and ld.gold, do not reset the current alternative if upgrading. (#1592069)

[2.30-23]
- Correct warning messages about incompatible PowerPC IEEE long double settings.

[2.30-22]
- Fix handling of local versioned symbols by the x86 linker. (PR 23194)
- Fix linker testsuite failures.

[2.30-21]
- Fix a seg-fault parsing PE format binaries. (#1560829)

[2.30-20]
- Have the x86 linker resolve relocations against the _end, _edata and __bss_start symbols locally. (#1576735)
- Do not generate GNU build notes for linkonce sections. (#1576362)

[2.30-19]
- Fix a seg-fault running objcopy on a corrupt PE format file. (#1574702)
- Fix a seg-fault running objcopy on a corrupt ELF format file. (#1574705)

[2.30-18]
- Fix a seg-fault parsing corrupt DWARF information. (#1573360)
- Fix another seg-fault parsing corrupt DWARF information. (#1573367)
- Fix a seg-fault copying a corrupt ELF file. (#1551788)
- Fix a seg-fault parsing a large ELF files on a 32-bit host. (#1539891)
- Fix a seg-fault running nm on a corrupt ELF file. (#15343247)
- Fix a seg-fault running nm on a file containing corrupt DWARF information. (#1551781)
- Fix another seg-fault running nm on a file containing corrupt DWARF information. (#1551763)

[2.30-17]
- Disable the automatic generation of annobin notes. (#1572485)

[2.30-16]
- Fix for PR 22887 - crashing objdump by passing it a corrupt AOUT binary. (#1553115)
- Fix for PR 22905 - crashing objdump by passing it a corrupt DWARF file. (#1553122)
- Fix for PR 22741 - crashing objdump by passing it a corrupt COFF file. (#1571918)

[2.30-15]
- Enhance the assembler to automatically generate annobin notes if none are present in the input.

[2.30-14]
- Fix the GOLD linker's processing of protected symbols created by the LLVM plugin. (#1559234 and PR 22868)

[2.30-13]
- Do not discard debugobj files created by GCC v8 LTO wrapper. (#1543912 and RHBZ 84847 and PR 20882)

[2.30-12]
- Treat relocs against s390x IFUNC symbols in note sections as relocs against the FUNC symbol instead.
- Combined previous patches into one which covers all ifunc supporting architectures. (#1553705)
- Retire binutils-s390-ifunc-relocs-in-notes.patch
- Retire binutils-x86_64-ifunc-relocs-in-notes.patch

[2.30-11]
- Treat relocs against s390x IFUNC symbols in note sections as relocs against the FUNC symbol instead. (#1553705)

[2.30-10]
- Ignore duplicate symbols generated by GOLD. (#1458003)

[2.30-9]
- Stop strip from replacing unknown relocs with null relocs. (#1545386)

[2.30-8]
- Ignore duplicate symbols generated by GOLD. (#1458003)

[2.30-7]
- Speed up objdump. (#1551540)

[2.30-6]
- Fix R_AARCH64 symbols (PR 22764) (#1547781)

[2.30-5]
- Fix assignment of pages to segments. (PR 22758)
- Inject RPM_LD_FLAGS into the build. (#1541027)
- Fix slowdown in readelf when examining files with lots of debug information. (PR 22802)
- Remove support for PowerPC speculation barrier insertion.
- Rebase on 2.30
- Retire binutils-2.22.52.0.1-relro-on-by-default.patch
- Retire binutils-2.28-dynamic-section-warning.patch
- Retire binutils-2.29-skip-rp14918-test-for-arm.patch
- Retire binutils-2.29.1-gold-start-stop.patch
- Retire binutils-2.29.1-readelf-use-dynamic.patch
- Retire binutils-aarch64-pie.patch
- Retire binutils-coverity.patch
- Retire binutils-ppc64-stub-creation.patch
- Retire binutils-strip-delete-relocs.patch
- Retire binutils-support-v3-build-notes.patch
- Retire binutils-z-undefs.patch

[2.29.1-19]
- Remove comment that explained how to disable annobin. (#1541027)

[2.29.1-18]
- Inject RPM_LD_FLAGS into the build. (#1541027)

[2.29.1-17]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

[2.29.1-16]
- Use make_build and make_install macros. (#1541027)

[2.29.1-15]
- Reenable binary annotations.

[2.29.1-14]
- Fix creation of PowerPC64 function call stubs. (#1523457)
- Disable -z defs during build.
- Disable binary annotations. (temporary ?)

[2.29.1-13]
- Fix bugs in AArch64 static PIE support. (#1536645)

[2.29.1-12]
- Add '-z undefs' option to the linker.

[2.29.1-11]
- *Do* enable relro by default for the PowerPC64 architecture. (#1523946)

[2.29.1-10]
- Update readelf and objcopy to support v3 build notes.

[2.29.1-9]
- Have readelf display extra symbol information at the end of the line. (#1479302)

[2.29.1-8]
- Do not enable relro by default for the PowerPC64 architecture. (#1523946)

[2.29.1-7]
- Stop strip from crashing when deleteing relocs in a file with annobin notes. (#1520805)

[2.29.1-6]
- Have readelf return an exit failure status when attempting to process an empty file. (#1522732)

[2.29.1-5]
- Disable PLT elision for x86/x86_64. (#1452111 and #1333481)

[2.29.1-4]
- Have readelf suggest the use of --use-dynamic when there are dynamic relocs that could have been displayed. (#1507694)

[2.29.1-3]
- Fix the GOLD linker's generation of relocations for start and stop symbols. (#1500898)

[2.29.1-2]
- Enable GOLD for PPC64 and s390x. (#1173780)
- Retire: binutils-2.20.51.0.10-sec-merge-emit.patch.
(It has been redundant for a long time now...)

[2.29.1-1]
- Rebase on FSF binutils 2.29.1 release.
- Retire: binutils-2.29-ppc64-plt-localentry0-disable.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.29-non-elf-orphan-skip.patch

[2.29-10]
- Extend fix for PR 21884.
(#1491023)

[2.29-8]
- Import fix for PR 21884 which stops a seg-fault in the linker when changing output format to binary during a final link.
(#1491023)

[2.29-7]
- Annotate patches with reason and lifetime expectances.
- Retire: binutils-2.24-ldforcele.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.25-set-long-long.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.25.1-cleansweep.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.26-fix-compile-warnings.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.28-ignore-gold-duplicates.patch

[2.29-6]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild

[2.29-5]
- Update ppc64 localentry0 patch with changes made by Alan Modra to the FSF binutils sources.
(#1475636)

[2.29-4]
- Rebuild with binutils fix for ppc64le, bootstrapping (#1475636)

[2.29-3]
- Do not enable the PPC64 plt-localentry0 linker optimization by default.
(#1475636)

[2.29-2]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild

[2.29-1]
- Rebase on FSF binutils 2.29.
- Retire: binutils-2.20.51.0.10-ppc64-pie.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.27-ld-buffer-overflow.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.28-libiberty-bugfixes.patch
- Retire: binutils-gnu-build-notes.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.28-gas-comp_dir.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.28-ppc-dynamic-relocs.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.28-dynamic-section-warning.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.28-aarch64-copy-relocs.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.28-DW_AT_export_symbols.patch

[2.28-14]
- Remove -flto compile time option accidentally added to CFLAGS.

[2.28-13]
- Add support for displaying new DWARF5 tags.
(#1472966)

[2.28-12]
- Correct snafu in previous delta that broke building s390 binaries.
(#1472486)

[2.28-11]
- Fix s390 assembler so that it remove fake local symbols from its output.
(#1460254)

[2.28-10]
- Update support for GNU Build Attribute notes to include version 2 notes.

[2.28-9]
- Update patch to fix AArch64 copy reloc generation.
(#1452170)

[2.28-8]
- Ignore duplicate indirect symbols generated by the GOLD linker.
(#1458003)

[2.28-7]
- Eliminate the generation of incorrect dynamic copy relocations on AArch64.
(#1452170)

[2.28-6]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_27_Mass_Rebuild

[2.28-5]
- Update GNU BUILD NOTES patch.
- Import FSF binutils patch to fix running readelf on debug info binaries.
(#1434050)

[2.28-4]
- Update GNU BUILD NOTES patch.
- Import FSF binutils patch to fix an abort with PowerPC dynamic relocs.

[2.28-3]
- Backport patch to add support for putting name, comp_dir and
producer strings into the .debug_str section.
(#1429389)

[2.28-2]
- Add support for GNU BUILD NOTEs.

[2.28-1]
- Rebase on FSF binutils v2.28.
- Retire: binutils-2.23.52.0.1-addr2line-dynsymtab.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.27-local-dynsym-count.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.27-monotonic-section-offsets.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.27-arm-aarch64-default-relro.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.28-gold.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.27-objdump-improvements.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.27-dwarf-parse-speedup.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.27-objdump-improvements.2.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.27-arm-binary-objects.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.27-ppc-fp-attributes.patch
- Add patch to sync libiberty with FSF GCC mainline.
(#1428310)

[2.27-19]
- Add support for PowerPC FP attributes.
(#1422461)

[2.27-18]
- Fix running the ARM port of the linker on BINARY objects.
(#1422577)

[2.27-17]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild

[2.27-16]
- Install COPYING[*] files using the % license macro.
(#1418430)

[2.27-15]
- Fix buffer overflows when printing translated messages.
(#1417411)

[2.27-14]
- Include the filename concerned in readelf error messages.
(#1412348)

[2.27-13]
- Another speed up for objdump when displaying source code alognside disassembly.
(#1397113)

[2.27-12]
- Speed up objdump when displaying source code alognside disassembly.
(#1397113)

[2.27-11]
- Fix objdumps disassembly of dynamic executables.
(#1370275)

[2.27-10]
- Fix GOLD for ARM and AARCH64
(#1386126)

[2.27-9]
- Fix invocation of /sbin/ldconfig when reinstalling binutils
in order to prevent warnings from rpm.
(#1379030)
(#1379117)

[2.27-8]
- Add i386pep emulation for all EFI capable CPU types.
(#1376870)

[2.27-7]
- Use --with-sysroot=/ for native targets. This prevents the default
sysroot of /usr/local//sys-root from being used, which breaks
locating needed shared libaries, but still allows the --sysroot
linker command line option to be effective.
(#1374889)
(#1377803)
(#1377949)

[2.27-6]
- Omit building GOLD when bootstrapping.
- Add a generic build requirement on gcc.
- Move bison and m4 build requirements to be conditional upon building GOLD.
- Add --with-sysroot configure option when building native targets.
- Skip PR14918 linker test for ARM native targets.
(#1374889)

[2.27-5]
- Add support for building the rpm with '--with bootstrap' enabled.
- Retire: binutils-2.20.51.0.2-ia64-lib64.patch

[2.27-4]
- Properly disable the default generation of compressed debug sections.
(#1366182)

[2.27-3]
- Put sections in a monotonically increasing order of file offset.
- Allow ARM and AArch64 targets to have relro on by default.

[2.27-2]
- Fix computation of sh_info field in the header of .dynsym sections.

[2.27-1]
- Rebase on FSF binutils 2.27 release.
- Retire: binutils-2.26-formatting.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.26-Bsymbolic_PIE.patch
- Retire: binutils-rh1312151.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.26-fix-GOT-offset-calculation.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.26-common-definitions.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.26-x86-PIE-relocations.patch

[2.26-23]
- Enable support for GCC's LTO.
(#1342618)

[2.26-22]
- Retire the copy-osabi patch.
(#1252066)

[2.26-21]
- Fix another compile time warning, this time in tc-arm.c.
(#1333695)

[2.26-20]
- Housekeeping: Delete retired patches. Renumber patches.
- Increase version number past F24 because F24 update is blocked by a version number comparison.

[2.26-16]
- Import patch to fix generation of x86 relocs in PIE mode. (PR 19827)

[2.26-15]
- Import patch to have common symbols in an executable override definitions in shared objects (PR 19579)
(#1312507)

[2.26-14]
- Import patch to fix x86 GOT offset calculation in 2.26 sources (PR 19601)
(#1312489)

[2.26-13]
- Import patch to fix symbol versioning bug in 2.26 sources (PR 19698)
(#1312151)

[2.26-12]
- Import H.J.Lu's kernel LTO patch.
(#1302071)

[2.26-11]
- Enable -Bsymbolic and -Bsymbolic-functions to PIE. Needed by Syslinux
(#1308296)

[2.26-10]
- Retire: binutils-2.23.2-aarch64-em.patch
(#1305179)

[2.26-9]
- Fix indentation in bfd/elf64-s390.c, gas/config/tc-ia64.c
and bfd/pe-mips.c to avoid compile time warnings.

[2.26-8]
- Fix indentation in bfd/coff-[i386|x86_64].c to avoid compile time warning.
- Suppress GOLD's dir_caches destructor.
- Suppress GOLD's Reloc_stub::Key::name function.
- Suppress unused ARM architecture variations in GAS.

[2.26-5]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild

[2.26-4]
- Drop the kernel patch entirely...
- Retire: binutils-2.25-kernel-ld-r.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.25.1-plugin-format-checking.patch

[2.26-3]
- Fix kernel patch for AVR targets.

[2.26-2]
- Fix kernel patch for PPC32 targets.

[2.26-1]
- Rebase on FSF binutils 2.26 release.
- Retire: binutils-2.25.1-ihex-parsing.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.25.1-dynamic_list.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.25.1-aarch64-pr18668.patch
- Retire: binutils-rh1247126.patch
(#1271387)

[2.25.1-9]
- Prevent an infinite recursion when a plugin tries to claim a file in an unrecognised format.
(#1174065)

[2.25.1-8]
- Enable little endian support when configuring for 64-bit PowerPC.
(#1275709)

[2.25.1-7]
- Fix incorrectly generated binaries and DSOs on PPC platforms.
(#1247126)

[2.25.1-6]
- Fix handling of AArch64 local GOT relocs. (#1262091)

[2.25.1-5]
- Do not enable deterministic archives by default (#1195883)

[2.25.1-4]
- Qt linked with gold crash on startup (#1193044)

[2.25.1-3]
- Fix the parsing of corrupt iHex files.
- Resovles: 1250141

[2.25.1-2]
- Retire: binutils-2.25-aarch64-fPIC-error.patch
- Resovles: 1249969

[2.25.1-1]
- Rebase on FSF binutils 2.25.1 release.
- Retire: binutils-2.25-x86_64-pie-relocs.patch

[2.25-12]
- For AArch64 issue an error message when attempting to resolve a
PC-relative dynamic reloc in a non-PIC object file.
- Related: 1232499

[2.25-11]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild

[2.25-10]
- Make the AArch64 GOLD port use 64K pages.
- Resolves: BZ #1225156 and BZ #1215546

[2.25-8]
- Require the coreutils so that touch is available.
- Resolves: BZ #1215242

[2.25-7]
- Enable building GOLD for the AArch64.
- Resolves: BZ #1203057

[2.25-6]
- Remove the windmc manual page, so that it is not installed.
- Resolves: BZ #1203606

[2.25-6]
- Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code

[2.25-5]
- Fix scanning for object symbols in binutils-2.25-kernel-ld-r.patch
- Resolves: BZ #1149660

[2.25-4]
- Import the fix for PR ld/17827 from FSF mainline.
- Resolves: BZ #1182511

[2.25-3]
- Suppress building of GOLD for PPC, for now...
- Resolves: BZ #1173780

[ 2.25-2]
- Reflect configure.info/standards.info having been dropped (RHBZ#1177359).

[2.25-1]
- Rebase on FSF binutils 2.25 release.
- Retire: binutils-2.24-s390-mkopc.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-elfnn-aarch64.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-DW_FORM_ref_addr.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-set-section-macros.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-fake-zlib-sections.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-arm-static-tls.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-fat-lto-objects.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-symbol-warning.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-aarch64-ld-shared-non-PIC-xfail.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-weak-sym-merge.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-indirect-chain.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-aarch64-fix-final_link_relocate.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-aarch64-fix-gotplt-offset-ifunc.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-aarch64-fix-static-ifunc.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-aarch64-fix-ie-relax.patch
- Retire: binutils-HEAD-change-ld-notice-interface.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-corrupt-binaries.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-strings-default-all.patch
- Retire: binutils-2.24-corrupt-ar.patch

[2.24-29]
- Fix problems with the ar program reported in FSF PR 17533.
Resolves: BZ #1162666, #1162655

[2.24-28]
- Fix buffer overrun in ihex parser.
- Fix memory corruption in previous patch.
- Consoldiate corrupt handling patches into just one patch.
- Default strings command to using -a.

[2.24-27]
- Fix memory corruption bug introduced by the previous patch.

[2.24-26]
- Import patches for PR/17510 and PR/17512 to fix reading corrupt ELF binaries.
Resolves: BZ #1157276, #1157277

[2.24-25]
- Import patch from mainline to fix seg-fault when reading corrupt group headers.
Resolves: BZ #1157276

[2.24-24]
- Import patch from mainline to fix seg-fault when reading corrupt srec fields.
Resolves: BZ #1156272

[2.24-23]
- aarch64: increase common page size to 64KB
- binutils-HEAD-change-ld-notice-interface.patch: backport fix from HEAD
that fixes LTO + ifunc when using ld.bfd instead of gold.
- binutils-2.24-aarch64-fix-gotplt-offset-ifunc.patch
binutils-2.24-aarch64-fix-static-ifunc.patch, split elfnn-aarch64 patches
into upstream git commits, to make it easier to figure out what's
backported already
- binutils-2.24-aarch64-fix-ie-relax.patch: add fix for gd to ie relaxation
when target register is >16 (pretty unlikely, but...)

[2.24-22]
- bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c: use correct offsets in final_link_relocate
Resolves: BZ #1126199

[2.24-21]
- Import patch from mainline to fix indirect symbol resolution.
Resolves: BZ #1123714

[2.24-20]
- Enable deterministic archives by default.
Resolves: BZ #1124342

[2.24-19]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild

[2.24-18]
- Correct elf_merge_st_other arguments for weak symbols.
Resolves: #1126436

[2.24-17]
- Enable gold for PPC.

[2.24-16]
- Backport a couple LTO testsuite fixes from HEAD.
Default to -ffat-lto-objects for some ld tests, which was the default in
gcc 4.8, but changed in 4.9, and resulted in some failures.
- Add STATIC_TLS flag on ARM when IE relocs are emitted in a shared
library. Also fix up offsets in the testsuite resulting from the
addition of the flags.
- XFail some ld tests on AArch64 to cut some of the spurious testsuite
failures down.

[2.24-15]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild

[2.24-14]
- Fix detection of little endian PPC64 binaries. (#1095885)

[2.24-13]
- Fix detection of uncompressed .debug_str sections. (#1082370)

[2.24-12]
- Fix compiling using gcc 4.9 (#1087374)

[2.24-11]
- Use {version} in Source string. Delete unused patches.

[2.24-10]
- Fix decoding of abbrevs using a DW_FORM_ref_addr attribute. (#1056797)

[2.24-9]
- Import fixes on 2.24 branch that affect AArch64 IFUNC and PLT handling.

[2.24-8]
- Fix building opcodes library with -Werror=format-security. (#1037026)

[2.24-7]
- Update to official binutils 2.24 release.

[2.24-6]
- Update binutils 2.24 snapshot.

[2.24-5]
- Update binutils 2.24 snapshot.
- Switch to using GIT instead of CVS to access the FSF repository.
- Retire binutils-2.24-nm-dynsym.patch

[2.24-4]
- Update binutils 2.24 snapshot.
- Stop NM from halting if it encounters a file with no symbols when displaying dynamic symbols in multiple files. (#1022845)

[2.24-3]
- Update binutils 2.24 snapshot.

[2.24-2]
- Update binutils 2.24 snapshot.

[2.24-1]
- Rebase on binutils 2.24 snapshot.
- Retire: binutils-2.23.52.0.1-64-bit-thin-archives.patch,
- binutils-2.23.52.0.1-as-doc-texinfo-fixes.patch,
- binutils-2.23.52.0.1-check-regular-ifunc-refs.patch,
- binutils-2.23.2-ld-texinfo-fixes.patch,
- binutils-2.23.2-bfd-texinfo-fixes.patch,
- binutils-2.23.2-dwz-alt-debuginfo.patch
- binutils-2.23.2-s390-gas-machinemode.patch
- binutils-2.23.2-xtensa.memset.patch
- binutils-2.23.2-s390-zEC12.patch
- binutils-2.23.2-arm-add-float-abi-to-e_flags.patch
- binutils-2.23.51.0.1-readelf-flush-stdout.patch

[2.23.88.0.1-14]
- Make readelf flush stdout before emitting an error or warning message. (#1005182)

[2.23.88.0.1-13]
- Add the hard-float/soft-float ABI flag as appropriate for
ET_DYN/ET_EXEC in EABI_VER5.
- Fix last changelog entry, it was release 12, not 14.

[2.23.88.0.1-12]
- Add support for the s/390 zEC12 architecture to gas. (#996395)

[2.23.88.0.1-11]
- Fix typos in invocations of memset in elf32-xtensa.c

[2.23.88.0.1-10]
- disable -Werror on ppc64p7 for #918189

[2.23.88.0.1-9]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild

[2.23.88.0.1-8]
- Add support for the S/390 .machinemode pseudo-op to GAS. (#986031)

[2.23.88.0.1-7]
- Add a requirement for libstdc++-static when running the GOLD testsuite.

[2.23.88.0.1-6]
- Fix building of aarch64 targets after applying the patch for kernel ld -r modules.
- Fix building when '--with debug' is specified.

[2.23.88.0.1-5]
- Add support for the alternative debuging files generated by the DWZ program. (#965255)

[2.23.88.0.1-4]
- Import H.J.'s patch to add support for kernel ld -r modules.
- Fix errors reported by version 5.0 of texinfo when parsing bfd documentation.

[2.23.88.0.1-3]
- Fix errors reported by version 5.0 of texinfo when parsing assembler documentation.

[2.23.88.0.1-2]
- Fix errors reported by version 5.0 of texinfo when parsing linker documentation.

[2.23.88.0.1-1]
- Switch over to basing sources on the official FSF binutils releases.
- Retire binutils-2.23.52.0.1-revert-pr15149.patch.
- Update binutils-2.22.52.0.1-relro-on-by-default.patch and binutils-2.23.52.0.1-as-doc-texinfo-fixes.patch.

[2.23.52.0.1-10]
- Import patch for FSF mainline PR 15371 to fix ifunc references in shared libraries. (#927818)

[2.23.52.0.1-9]
- Enhance opncls.c:find_separate_debug_file() to look in Fedora specific locations.
- Enhance dwarf2.c:find_line() to work with shared libraries. (#920542)

[2.23.52.0.1-8]
- Fix addr2line to use dynamic symbols if it failed to canonicalize ordinary symbols. (#920542)

[2.23.52.0.1-7]
- Change requirement to explicitly depend upon /usr/bin/pod2man. (#920545)

[2.23.52.0.1-6]
- Require perl for pod2man for building man pages. (#920545)

[2.23.52.0.1-5]
- Reverts patch for PR15149 - prevents report weak DT_NEEDED symbols. (#918003)

[2.23.52.0.1-4]
- Enable building of GOLD for the ARM. (#908966)

[2.23.52.0.1-3]
- Fix errors reported by version 5.0 of texinfo when parsing assembler documentaion.

[2.23.52.0.1-2]
- Fix the creation of index tables in 64-bit thin archives. (#915411)

[2.23.52.0.1-1]
- Rebase on 2.23.51.0.1 release. (#916516)

[2.23.51.0.9-2]
- Enable 64-bit BFD for aarch64. (#908904)

[2.23.51.0.9-1]
- Rebase on 2.23.51.0.9 release. (#907089)
- Retire binutils-2.23.51.0.8-arm-whitespace.patch.

[2.23.51.0.8-4]
- Allow more whitespace in ARM instructions. (#892261)

[2.23.51.0.8-3]
- Add bc to BuildRequires when running the testsuite. (#895321)

[2.23.51.0.8-2]
- Add runtime link with libdl. (#889134)

[2.23.51.0.8-1]
- Rebase on 2.23.51.0.8 release. (#890382)

[2.23.51.0.7-1]
- Rebase on 2.23.51.0.7 release. (#889432)

[2.23.51.0.6-1]
- Rebase on 2.23.51.0.6 release. (#880508)

[2.23.51.0.5-1]
- Rebase on 2.23.51.0.5 release. (#876141)
- Retire binutils-2.23.51.0.3-arm-ldralt.patch

[2.23.51.0.3-3]
- Rename ARM LDRALT instruction to LDALT. (#869025) PR/14575

[2.23.51.0.3-2]
- Provides: bundled(libiberty)

[2.23.51.0.3-1]
- Rebase on 2.23.51.0.3 release. (#858560)

[2.23.51.0.2-1]
- Rebase on 2.23.51.0.2 release. (#856119)
- Retire binutils-2.23.51.0.1-gold-keep.patch and binutils-rh805974.patch.

[2.23.51.0.1-4]
- Correctly handle PLTOFF relocs for s390 IFUNCs.

[2.23.51.0.1-3]
- apply F17 commit cd2fda5 to honour {powerpc64} macro (#834651)

[2.23.51.0.1-2]
- Make GOLD honour KEEP directives in linker scripts (#8333355)

[2.23.51.0.1-1]
- Rebase on 2.23.51.0.1 release. (#846433)
- Retire binutils-2.22.52.0.4-dwz.patch, binutils-2.22.52.0.4-ar-4Gb.patch, binutils-2.22.52.0.4-arm-plt-refcount.patch, binutils-2.22.52.0.4-s390-64bit-archive.patch.

[2.22.52.0.4-8]
- Make the binutils-devel package depend upon the binutils package. (#845082)

[2.22.52.0.4-7]
- Disable checks that config.h is included before system headers. (#845084)

[2.22.52.0.4-6]
- Use 64bit indicies in archives for s390 binaries. (#835957)

[2.22.52.0.4-5]
- Catch attempts to create a broken symbol index with archives > 4Gb in size. (#835957)

[2.22.52.0.4-4]
- Import fix for ld/14189. (#829311)

[2.22.52.0.4-3]
- Fix handling of archives > 4Gb in size by importing patch for PR binutils/14302. (#835957)

[2.22.52.0.4-2]
- Add minimal dwz -m support.

[2.22.52.0.4-1]
- Rebase on 2.22.52.0.4 release. (#829027)

[2.22.52.0.3-1]
- Rebase on 2.22.52.0.3 release. (#819823)

[2.22.52.0.2-1]
- Rebase on 2.22.52.0.2 release. (#816514)
- Retire binutils-2.22.52.0.1-weakdef.patch, binutils-2.22.52.0.1-ld-13621.patch, binutils-rh797752.patch, binutils-2.22.52.0.1-x86_64-hidden-ifunc.patch, binutils-2.22.52.0.1-tsx.patch and binutils-2.22.52.0.1-hidden-ifunc.patch.
- Update binutils-2.22.52.0.1-reloc-on-by-default.patch.

[2.22.52.0.1-12]
- Include demangle.h in the devel rpm.

[2.22.52.0.1-11]
- Enable -zrelro by default for RHEL 7+. (#807831)

[2.22.52.0.1-10]
- Fix up handling of hidden ifunc relocs on i?86

[2.22.52.0.1-9]
- Fix c++filt docs (2nd instance) (#797752)

[2.22.52.0.1-8]
- Fix up handling of hidden ifunc relocs on x86_64
- Add Intel TSX support

[2.22.52.0.1-7]
- Enable -zrelro by default. (#621983 #807831)

[2.22.52.0.1-6]
- Fix c++filt docs (#797752)

[2.22.52.0.1-5]
- Add upstream ld/13621 'dangling global hidden symbol in symtab' patch.

[2.22.52.0.1-4]
- Actually apply the patch

[2.22.52.0.1-3]
- Add upstream weakdef.patch to fix RH #788107

[2.22.52.0.1-2]
- Drat - forgot to upload the new tarball. Now done.

[2.22.52.0.1-1]
- Rebase on 2.22.52 release.
- Remove build-id.patch and gold-casts.patch as they are included in the 2.22.52 sources.

[2.22-4]
- Fix bug in GOLD sources parsing signed integers in command line options.

[2.22-3]
- Add casts for building gold with 4.7 version of gcc.

[2.22-2]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild

[2.22-1]
- Rebase on 2.22 release.

[2.21.53.0.2-2]
- Rebuild libopcodes.a with -fPIC.

[2.21.53.0.2-1]
- Rebase on 2.21.53.0.2 tarball. Delete unneeded patches. (BZ 728677)

[2.21.53.0.1-3]
- Update libiberty demangling. (BZ 727453)

[2.21.53.0.1-2]
- Import Jakub Jelinek's patch to add support for displaying the contents of .debug_macro sections.

[2.21.53.0.1-1]
- Rebase on 2.21.53.0.1 tarball. Delete unneeded patches. (BZ 712668)

[2.21.52.0.1-5]
- Import fix for PR ld/12921.

[2.21.52.0.1-4]
- Run 'alternatives --auto' to restore ld symbolic link if it was manually configured. (BZ 661247)

[2.21.52.0.1-3]
- Fix seg-fault attempting to find a function name without a symbol table. (BZ 713471)

[2.21.52.0.1-2]
- Import fix for PR ld/12851 (BZ 711268)

[2.21.52.0.1-1]
- Rebase on 2.21.52.0.1 tarball. (BZ 712025)

[2.21.51.0.9-1]
- Rebase on 2.21.51.0.9 tarball. (BZ 703105)

[2.21.51.0.8-3]
- Add ARM to BFD checks

[2.21.51.0.8-2]
- Delete plugins patch - enable plugins via configure option.

[2.21.51.0.8-1]
- Rebase on 2.21.51.0.8 tarball.

[2.21.51.0.7-1]
- Rebase on 2.21.51.0.7 tarball.

[2.21.51.0.6-2]
- Enable gold plugins. (BZ 682852)

[2.21.51.0.6-1]
- Rebase on 2.21.51.0.6 tarball.

[2.21.51.0.5-4]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild

[2.21.51.0.5-3]
- Readd --build-id fix patch. (PR ld/12451)

[2.21.51.0.5-2]
- fix build on non-gold arches like s390(x) where both ld and ld.bfd is installed

[2.21.51.0.5-1]
- Rebase on 2.21.51.0.5 tarball.
- Delete redundant patches.
- Fix gold+ld configure command line option.

[2.20.51.0.12-2]
- 'no' is not valid option for --enable-gold

[2.20.51.0.12-1]
- Rebase on 2.20.51.0.12 tarball. (BZ 582160)

[2.20.51.0.11-1]
- Rebase on 2.20.51.0.11 tarball. (BZ 631771)

[2.20.51.0.10-3]
- Allow ^ and ! characters in linker script wildcard patterns. (BZ 621742)

[2.20.51.0.10-2]
- Fix seg fault in sec_merge_emit(). (BZ 623687)

[2.20.51.0.10-1]
- Rebase on 2.20.51.0.10 tarball.
- Import GOLD sources from binutils mainline as of 10 Aug 2010.

[2.20.51.0.7-5]
- Rename the binutils-static package to binutils-devel in line with the Fedora packaging guidelines.

[2.20.51.0.7-4]
- Allow GOLD linker to parse '-l' directives inside INPUT statements in linker scripts. (BZ 600553)

[2.20.51.0.7-3]
- Allow unique symbols in archive maps.

[2.20.51.0.7-2]
- Merge binutils-devel package into binutils-static package. (BZ 576300)

[2.20.51.0.7-1]
- Rebase on 2.20.51.0.7 tarball.
- Delete redundant patches:
binutils-2.20.51.0.2-add-needed.patch,
binutils-2.20.51.0.2-do-not-set-ifunc.patch,
binutils-2.20.51.0.2-enable-gold.patch,
binutils-2.20.51.0.2-gas-expr.patch,
binutils-2.20.51.0.2-ifunc-ld-s.patch,
binutils-2.20.51.0.2-lwp.patch,
binutils-2.20.51.0.2-ppc-hidden-plt-relocs.patch,
binutils-2.20.51.0.2-x86-hash-table.patch,
- Do not allow unique symbols to be bound locally. (PR ld/11434)
- Add support for DWARF4 debug information.

[2.20.51.0.2-17]
- Do not set ELFOSABI_LINUX on binaries which just link to IFUNC using DSOs. (BZ 568941)

[2.20.51.0.2-16]
- Copy the OSABI field in ELF headers, if set. (BZ 568921)

[2.20.51.0.2-15]
- Create separate static and devel sub-packages. (BZ 556040)

[2.20.51.0.2-14]
- Fix seg-fault when linking mixed x86 and x86_64 binaries. (BZ 487472)

[2.20.51.0.2-13]
- Add a requirement for the coreutils. (BZ 557006)

[2.20.51.0.2-12]
- Fix --no-copy-dt-needed so that it will not complain about weak references.

[2.20.51.0.2-11]
- Add missing part of PR 11088 patch.

[2.20.51.0.2-10]
- Apply patch for PR 11088. (BZ 544149)

[2.20.51.0.2-9]
- Apply patch for PR 10856. (BZ 544358)

[2.20.51.0.2-8]
- Build gold only for x86 flavors until others are tested.

[2.20.51.0.2-7]
- Add support for building gold.

[2.20.51.0.2-5]
- Fix up --copy-dt-needed-entries default. (Nick Clifton)

[2.20.51.0.2-4]
- Fix ld -s with IRELATIVE relocations. (BZ 533321, PR ld/10911)
- Add AMD Orochi LWP support, fix FMA4 support.

[2.20.51.0.2-3]
- Rename --add-needed to --copy-dt-needed-entries and improve error message about unresolved symbols in DT_NEEDED DSOs.

[2.20.51.0.2-2]
- Fix rpm --excludedocs (BZ 515922).
- Fix spurious scriplet errors by exit 0'. (BZ 517979, Nick Clifton)

[2.20.51.0.2-1]
- Rebase on 2.20 tarball.
- Remove redundant moxie patch.
- Remove redundant unique is global patch.
- Remove redundant cxxfilt java doc patch.

[2.19.51.0.14-32]
- Remove spurious description of nonexistent --java switch for cxxfilt.

[2.19.51.0.14-31]
- Fix strip on objects with STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbols. (BZ 515700, PR binutils/10492)

[2.19.51.0.14-30]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

[2.19.51.0.11-28]
- Rebase sources on 2.19.51.0.14 tarball. Gain fixes for PRs 10429 and 10433.

[2.19.51.0.11-28]
- Rebase sources on 2.19.51.0.13 tarball. Remove redundant orphan section placement patch. (BZ 512937)

[2.19.51.0.11-27]
- Add patch to allow moxie target to build, and hence --enable-targets=all to work.

[2.19.51.0.11-26]
- Import orphan section placement patch from mainline. (BZ 510384)

[2.19.51.0.11-25]
- Fix build-id patch to avoid memory corruption. (BZ 501582)

[2.19.51.0.11-24]
- Provide uuencode output of the testsuite results.

[2.19.51.0.11-23]
- Rebase sources on the 2.19.51.0.11 tarball.

[2.19.51.0.10-22]
- Rebase sources on the 2.19.51.0.10 tarball.

[2.19.51.0.2-21]
- Do not attempt to set execute permission on non-regular files. (BZ 503426)

[2.19.51.0.2-20]
- Fix .cfi_* skip over >= 64KB of code. (PR gas/10255)

[2.19.51.0.2-19]
- Import fix for binutils PR #9938. (BZ 500295)

[2.19.51.0.2-18]
- Update IBM Power 7 support patch to fix tlbilx opcode. (BZ 494718)

[2.19.51.0.2-17]
- Add glibc-static to BuildRequires when running the testsuite.

[2.19.51.0.2-16]
- Add IBM Power7 support. (BZ 487887)

[2.19.51.0.2-15]
- Add IFUNC support. (BZ 465302)

[2.19.51.0.2-14]
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

[2.19.50.0.2-13]
- Rediff the symbolic-envvar-revert patch to comply with rpm patch --fuzz=0.

[2.19.51.0.2-12]
- Rebase sources on 2.19.51.0.2 tarball. Remove linkonce-r-discard and
gcc-expect-table patches.

[2.19.50.0.1-11]
- Fix .eh_frame_hdr build also for .gcc_except_table LSDA refs (BZ 461675).

[2.19.50.0.1-10]
- Only require dejagnu if the testsuites are going to be run. (BZ 481169)

[2.19.50.0.1-8]
- Add build-id patch to ensure that section contents are incorporated
into a build id. (BZ 472152)

[2.19.50.0.1]
- Rebase sources on 2.19.50.0.1 tarball. Update all patches, trimming
those that are no longer needed.

[2.18.50.0.9-7]
- Fix %{_prefix}/include/bfd.h on 32-bit hosts due the 64-bit BFD target
support from 2.18.50.0.8-2 (BZ 468495).

[2.18.50.0.9-6]
- binutils-devel now requires zlib-devel (BZ 463101 comment 5).
- Fix complains on .gnu.linkonce.r relocations to their discarded
.gnu.linkonce.t counterparts.

[2.18.50.0.9-5]
- Remove %makeinstall to comply with the spu-binutils review (BZ 452211).

[2.18.50.0.9-4]
- Fix *.so scripts for multilib linking (BZ 463101, suggested by Jakub Jelinek).

[2.18.50.0.9-3]
- Provide libbfd.so and libopcodes.so for automatic dependencies (BZ 463101).
- Fix .eh_frame_hdr build on C++ files with discarded common groups (BZ 458950).
- Provide --build and --host to fix rpmbuild --target' biarch builds.
- Include %{binutils_target}- filename prefix for binaries for cross builds.
- Fix multilib conflict on %{_prefix}/include/bfd.h's BFD_HOST_64BIT_LONG_LONG.

[2.18.50.0.9-2]
- Package review, analysed by Jon Ciesla and Patrice Dumas (BZ 225615).
- build back in the sourcedir without problems as gasp is no longer included.
- Fix the install-info requirement.
- Drop the needless gzipping of the info files.
- Provide Obsoletes versions.
- Use the %configure macro.

[2.18.50.0.9-1]
- Update to 2.18.50.0.9.
- Drop the ppc-only spu target pre-build stage (BZ 455242).
- Drop parsing elf64-i386 files for kdump PAE vmcore dumps (BZ 457189).
- New .spec BuildRequires zlib-devel (/-static) for compressed sections.
- Update .spec Buildroot to be more unique.

[2.18.50.0.8-2]
- Fix parsing elf64-i386 files for kdump PAE vmcore dumps (BZ 457189).
- Turn on 64-bit BFD support for i386, globally enable AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.
- --with debug' builds now with --disable-shared.
- Removed a forgotten unused ld/eelf32_spu.c workaround from 2.18.50.0.8-1.

[2.18.50.0.8-1]
- Update to 2.18.50.0.8.
- Drop the .clmul -> .pclmul renaming backport.
- Add %{binutils_target} macro to support building cross-binutils.
(David Woodhouse)
- Support --without testsuite' to suppress the testsuite run.
- Support --with debug' to build without optimizations.
- Refresh the patchset with fuzz 0 (for new rpmbuild).
- Enable the spu target on ppc/ppc64 (BZ 455242).

[2.18.50.0.6-4]
- include the dist' tag in the Release number
- libbfd.a symbols visibility is now hidden (for #447426, suggested by Jakub)

[2.18.50.0.6-3]
- rebuild libbfd.a with -fPIC for inclusion into shared libraries (#447426)

[2.18.50.0.6-2]
- backport .clmul -> .pclmul renaming

[2.18.50.0.6-1]
- update to 2.18.50.0.6
- Intel AES, CLMUL, AVX/FMA support

[2.18.50.0.4-2]
- revert aranges optimization (Alan Modra, BZ#5303, BZ#5755)
- fix ld-shared testcase for GCC 4.3 (H.J. Lu)

[2.18.50.0.4-1]
- update to 2.18.50.0.4

[2.18.50.0.3-2]
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

[2.18.50.0.3-1]
- update to 2.18.50.0.3
- fix build with recent makeinfo (#415271)

[2.17.50.0.18-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.18
- GPLv3+
- preserve .note.gnu.build-id in objcopy --only-keep-debug (#251935)
- fix sparc64/alpha broken by --build-id patch (#252936)
- update License tag
- fix ld crash with --build-id and non-ELF output format (Alan Modra, BZ#4923)

[2.17.50.0.17-7]
- fix ppc32 secure PLT detection (Alan Modra)

[2.17.50.0.17-6]
- rebuilt to make sure even libbfd.so and libopcodes.so aren't
broken by #249435

[2.17.50.0.17-5]
- add .note.gnu.build-id into default linker script (#249435)

[2.17.50.0.17-4]
- don't kill the %{_gnu} part of target name on arm
(Lennert Buytenhek, #243516)
- create just one PT_NOTE segment header for all consecutive SHT_NOTE
sections

[2.17.50.0.17-3]
- fix for ld --build-id

[2.17.50.0.17-2]
- ld --build-id support

[2.17.50.0.17-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.17

[2.17.50.0.16-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.16

[2.17.50.0.12-4]
- fix linking non-ELF input objects into ELF output (#235747)

[2.17.50.0.12-3]
- don't require matching ELF_OSABI for target vecs with ELFOSABI_NONE,
only prefer specific osabi target vecs over the generic ones
(H.J.Lu, #230964, BZ#3826)
- build libbfd.so and libopcodes.so with -Bsymbolic-functions

[2.17.50.0.12-2]
- ignore install-info errors from scriptlets (#223678)

[2.17.50.0.12-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.12
- revert the misdesigned LD_SYMBOLIC{,_FUNCTIONS} env var support,
only support -Bsymbolic/-Bsymbolic-functions/--dynamic-list*

[2.17.50.0.9-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.9
- fix tekhex reader

[2.17.50.0.8-2]
- fix --as-needed on ppc64 (#219629)

[2.17.50.0.8-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.8
- initialize frch_cfi_data (BZ#3607)

[2.17.50.0.7-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.7
- .cfi_personality and .cfi_lsda directives, per subsection .cfi_*
directives, better .eh_frame CIE merging

[2.17.50.0.6-3]
- fix popcnt instruction assembly and disassembly on amd64 (#214767)

[2.17.50.0.6-2]
- update to 2.17.50.0.6
- fix for section relative linker script defined symbols in
empty sections (#207598, BZ#3267)
- fix handling of DW_CFA_set_loc in .eh_frame optimizations
- fix R_PPC_{PLT,GOT{,_TLSGD,_TLSLD,_TPREL,_DTPREL}}16_HA relocation
handling with weak undefined symbols (Alan Modra, #211094)

[2.17.50.0.3-6]
- fix multilib conflict in %{_prefix}/include/bfd.h

[2.17.50.0.3-5]
- fix efi-app-ia64 magic number (#206002, BZ#3171)

[2.17.50.0.3-4]
- link libopcodes*.so against libbfd*.so (#202327)
- split *.a and header files into binutils-devel

[2.17.50.0.3-3]
- on ppc and ppc64 increase default -z commonpagesize to 64K (#203001)

[2.17.50.0.3-2]
- do not infer x86 arch implicitly based on instruction in the input
(#200330)

[2.17.50.0.3-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.3

[2.17.50.0.2-8]
- add support for new AMDFAM10 instructions (#198281, IT#97662)
- add -march=/-mtune= gas support on x86/x86-64
- x86/x86-64 nop insn improvements
- fix DT_GNU_HASH shift count value computation

[2.17.50.0.2-7]
- add DT_GNU_HASH support (--hash-style=gnu and --hash-style=both
ld options)

[2.17.50.0.2-4]
- fix i?86 TLS GD->IE transition in executables (#196157, BZ#2513)

[2.17.50.0.2-3]
- fix two places in ld that misbehaved with MALLOC_PERTURB_=N
- fix .tls_common handling in relocatable linking

[2.17.50.0.2-2]
- fix --as-needed (Alan Modra, #193689, BZ#2721)

[2.17.50.0.2-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.2
- update from CVS to 20060601
- speed up the ELF linker by caching the result of kept section check
(H.J. Lu)

[2.17.50.0.1-1]
- update to 2.17.50.0.1

[2.16.91.0.6-6]
- fix ld error message formatting, so that collect2 parser can
parse it again for g++ -frepo (#187142)

[2.16.91.0.6-4]
- fix relaxation of TLS GD to LE on PPC (#184590)

[2.16.91.0.6-3]
- support DW_CFA_val_{offset,offset_sf,expression} in readelf/objdump

[2.16.91.0.6-2]
- add MNI support on i?86/x86_64 (#183080)
- support S signal frame augmentation flag in .eh_frame,
add .cfi_signal_frame support (#175951, PR other/26208, BZ#300)

[2.16.91.0.6-1]
- update to 2.16.91.0.6
- fix ppc64 --gc-sections
- disassembler fixes for x86_64 cr/debug regs
- fix linker search order for DT_NEEDED libs

[2.16.91.0.5-1]
- update to 2.16.91.0.5
- don't error about .toc1 references to discarded sectiosn on ppc64
(#175944)

[2.16.91.0.3-2]
- put .gnu.linkonce.d.rel.ro.* sections into relro region

* Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating
- rebuilt

[2.16.91.0.3-1]
- update to 2.16.91.0.3
- add .weakref support (Alexandre Oliva, #115157, #165728)

[2.16.91.0.2-4]
- install-info also configure.info
- update standards.texi from gnulib (#165530)

[2.16.91.0.2-3]
- update to 20050816 CVS
- better fix for ld-cdtest
- fix symbol version script parsing

[2.16.91.0.2-2]
- don't complain about relocs to discarded sections in ppc32
.got2 sections (Alan Modra, PR target/17828)

[2.16.91.0.2-1]
- update to 2.16.91.0.2

[2.16.91.0.1-3]
- fix buffer overflow in readelf ia64 unwind printing code
- use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in gas diagnostics (Tavis Ormandy)
- fix ld-cdtest when CFLAGS contains -fexceptions

[2.16.91.0.1-2]
- update to 20050720 CVS

[2.16.91.0.1-1]
- update to 2.16.91.0.1 plus 20050708 CVS

[2.16.90.0.3-1]
- update to 2.16.90.0.3
- update to 20050615 CVS
- ppc32 secure PLT support (Alan Modra)
- further bfd/readelf robustification

[2.15.94.0.2.2-4]
- further bfd robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)

[2.15.94.0.2.2-3]
- further objdump and readelf robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)

[2.15.94.0.2.2-2]
- bfd and readelf robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)

[2.15.94.0.2.2-1]
- update to 2.15.94.0.2.2
- speed up walk_wild_section (Robert O'Callahan)

[2.15.94.0.2-4]
- rebuilt with GCC 4

[2.15.94.0.2-3]
- fix buffer overflows in readelf (#149506)
- move c++filt to binutils from gcc-c++, conflict with gcc-c++ < 4.0 (#86333)

[2.15.94.0.2-1]
- update to 2.15.94.0.2
- fix .note.GNU-stack/PT_GNU_STACK computation in linker on ppc64 (#147296)
- fix stripping of binaries/libraries that have empty sections right before
.dynamic section (with the same starting address; #144038)
- handle AS_NEEDED (...) in linker script INPUT/GROUP

[2.15.92.0.2-11]
- fix a longstanding -z relro bug

[2.15.92.0.2-10]
- avoid unnecessary gap with -z relro showing on i686 libc.so
- ppc64 --emit-relocs fix (Alan Modra)
- don't crash if STT_SECTION symbol has incorrect st_shndx (e.g. SHN_ABS,
as created by nasm; #142181)
- don't try to make absptr LSDAs relative if they don't have relocations
against them (Alan Modra, #141162)

[2.15.92.0.2-5.EL4]
- fix ar xo (#104344)

[2.15.92.0.2-5]
- fix --just-symbols on ppc64 (Alan Modra, #135498)

[2.15.92.0.2-4]
- fix code detecting matching linkonce and single member comdat
group sections (#133078)

[2.15.92.0.2-3]
- revert Sep 09 change to make ppc L second argument e.g. for tlbie
non-optional
- fix stripping of prelinked binaries and libraries (#133734)
- allow strings(1) on 32-bit arches to be used again with > 2GB
files (#133555)

[2.15.92.0.2-2]
- update to 2.15.92.0.2
- change ld's ld.so.conf parser to match ldconfig's (#129340)

[2.15.91.0.2-9]
- avoid almost 1MB (sparse) gaps in the middle of -z relro
libraries on x86-64 (Andreas Schwab)
- fix -z relro to make sure end of PT_GNU_RELRO segment is always
COMMONPAGESIZE aligned

[2.15.91.0.2-8]
- fix linker segfaults on input objects with SHF_LINK_ORDER with
incorrect sh_link (H.J.Lu, Nick Clifton, #130198, BZ #290)

[2.15.91.0.2-7]
- resolve all undefined ppc64 .* syms to the function bodies through
.opd, not just those used in brach instructions (Alan Modra)

[2.15.91.0.2-6]
- fix ppc64 ld --dotsyms (Alan Modra)

[2.15.91.0.2-5]
- various ppc64 make check fixes when using non-dot-syms gcc (Alan Modra)
- fix --gc-sections
- on ia64 create empty .gnu.linkonce.ia64unw*.* sections for
.gnu.linkonce.t.* function doesn't need unwind info

[2.15.91.0.2-4]
- kill ppc64 dot symbols (Alan Modra)
- objdump -d support for objects without dot symbols
- support for overlapping ppc64 .opd entries

[2.15.91.0.2-3]
- fix a newly introduced linker crash on x86-64

[2.15.91.0.2-2]
- BuildRequire bison and macroise buildroot - from Steve Grubb

[2.15.91.0.2-1]
- update to 2.15.91.0.2
- BuildRequire flex (#117763)

[2.15.90.0.3-7]
- use lib64 instead of lib directories on ia64 if %{_lib} is
set to lib64 by rpm

[2.15.90.0.3-6]
- fix a bug introduced in the ++/-- rejection patch
from 2.15.90.0.3 (Alan Modra)

[2.15.90.0.3-5]
- fix s390{,x} .{,b,p2}align handling
- ppc/ppc64 testsuite fix

[2.15.90.0.3-4]
- -z relro ppc/ppc64/ia64 fixes
- change x86-64 .plt symbol st_size handling to match ia32
- prettify objdump -d output

[2.15.90.0.3-3]
- several SPARC fixes

[2.15.90.0.3-2]
- yet another fix for .tbss handling

[2.15.90.0.3-1]
- update to 2.15.90.0.3

[2.15.90.0.1.1-2]
- update to 20040326 CVS
- fix ppc64 weak .opd symbol handling (Alan Modra, #119086)
- fix .tbss handling bug introduced

[2.15.90.0.1.1-1]
- update to 2.15.90.0.1.1

[2.14.90.0.8-8]
- with -z now without --enable-new-dtags create DT_BIND_NOW
dynamic entry in addition to DT_FLAGS_1 with DF_1_NOW bit set

[2.14.90.0.8-7]
- fix -pie on ppc32

[2.14.90.0.8-6]
- clear .plt sh_entsize on sparc32
- put whole .got into relro area with -z now -z relro

* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee
- rebuilt

[2.14.90.0.8-4]
- fix -pie on IA64

[2.14.90.0.8-3]
- fix testcases on s390 and s390x

[2.14.90.0.8-2]
- fix testcases on AMD64
- fix .got's sh_entsize on IA32/AMD64
- set COMMONPAGESIZE on s390/s390x
- set COMMONPAGESIZE on ppc32 (Alan Modra)

[2.14.90.0.8-1]
- update to 2.14.90.0.8

[2.14.90.0.7-4]
- fix -z relro on 64-bit arches

[2.14.90.0.7-3]
- fix some bugs in -z relro support

[2.14.90.0.7-2]
- -z relro support, reordering of RW sections

[2.14.90.0.7-1]
- update to 2.14.90.0.7

[2.14.90.0.6-4]
- fix assembly parsing of foo=(.-bar)/4 (Alan Modra)
- fix IA-64 assembly parsing of (p7) hint @pause

[2.14.90.0.6-3]
- don't abort on some linker warnings/errors on IA-64

[2.14.90.0.6-2]
- fix up merge2.s to use .p2align instead of .align

[2.14.90.0.6-1]
- update to 2.14.90.0.6
- speed up string merging (Lars Knoll, Michael Matz, Alan Modra)
- speed up IA-64 local symbol handling during linking

[2.14.90.0.5-7]
- avoid ld -s segfaults introduced in 2.14.90.0.5-5 (Dmitry V. Levin,

[2.14.90.0.5-6]
- build old demangler into libiberty.a (#102268)
- SPARC .cfi* support

[2.14.90.0.5-5]
- fix orphan section placement

[2.14.90.0.5-4]
- fix ppc64 elfvsb linker tests
- some more 64-bit cleanliness fixes, give ppc64 fdesc symbols
type and size (Alan Modra)

[2.14.90.0.5-3]
- fix 64-bit unclean code in ppc-opc.c

[2.14.90.0.5-2]
- fix 64-bit unclean code in tc-ppc.c

[2.14.90.0.5-1]
- update to 2.14.90.0.5
- fix ld -r on ppc64 (Alan Modra)

[2.14.90.0.4-23]
- rebuilt

[2.14.90.0.4-22]
- fix elfNN_ia64_dynamic_symbol_p (Richard Henderson, #86661)
- don't access memory beyond what was allocated in readelf
(Richard Henderson)

[2.14.90.0.4-21]
- add .cfi_* support on ppc{,64} and s390{,x}

[2.14.90.0.4-20]
- remove lib{bfd,opcodes}.la (#98190)

[2.14.90.0.4-19]
- fix -pie support on amd64, s390, s390x and ppc64
- issue relocation overflow errors for s390/s390x -fpic code when
accessing .got slots above 4096 bytes from .got start

[2.14.90.0.4-18]
- rebuilt

[2.14.90.0.4-17]
- fix ia64 -pie support
- require no undefined non-weak symbols in PIEs like required for normal
binaries

[2.14.90.0.4-16]
- fix readelf -d on IA-64
- build libiberty.a with -fPIC, so that it can be lined into shared
libraries

[2.14.90.0.4-15]
- rebuilt

[2.14.90.0.4-14]
- added support for Intel Prescott instructions
- fix hint@pause for ia64
- add workaround for LTP sillyness (#97934)

[2.14.90.0.4-13]
- update CFI stuff to 2003-06-18
- make sure .eh_frame is aligned to 8 bytes on 64-bit arches,
remove padding within one .eh_frame section

[2.14.90.0.4-12]
- rebuilt

[2.14.90.0.4-11]
- one more fix for the same patch

[2.14.90.0.4-10]
- fix previous patch

[2.14.90.0.4-9]
- ensure R_PPC64_{RELATIVE,ADDR64} have *r_offset == r_addend
and the other relocs have *r_offset == 0

[2.14.90.0.4-8]
- remove some unnecessary provides in ppc64 linker script
which were causing e.g. empty .ctors/.dtors section creation

[2.14.90.0.4-7]
- some CFI updates/fixes
- don't create dynamic relocations against symbols defined in PIE
exported from its .dynsym

[2.14.90.0.4-6]
- update gas to 20030604
- PT_GNU_STACK support

[2.14.90.0.4-5]
- buildrequire gettext (#91838)

[2.14.90.0.4-4]
- fix shared libraries with >= 8192 .plt slots on ppc32

[2.14.90.0.4-3]
- rebuilt

[2.14.90.0.4-2]
- rename ld --dynamic option to --pic-executable or --pie
- fix ld --help output
- document --pie/--pic-executable in ld.info and ld.1

[2.14.90.0.4-1]
- update to 2.14.90.0.4-1
- gas CFI updates (Richard Henderson)
- dynamic executables (Ulrich Drepper)

[2.14.90.0.2-2]
- fix ELF visibility handling
- tidy plt entries on IA-32, ppc and ppc64

[2.14.90.0.2-1]
- update to 2.14.90.0.2-1

[2.13.90.0.20-8]
- fix bfd_elf_hash on 64-bit arches (Andrew Haley)

[2.13.90.0.20-7]
- rebuilt

[2.13.90.0.20-6]
- optimize DW_CFA_advance_loc4 in gas even if there is 'z' augmentation
with size 0 in FDE

[2.13.90.0.20-5]
- fix SPARC build

[2.13.90.0.20-4]
- fix ppc32 plt reference counting
- don't include %{_prefix}/%{_lib}/debug in the non-debuginfo package
(#87729)

[2.13.90.0.20-3]
- make elf64ppc target native extra on ppc and elf32ppc native extra
on ppc64.

[2.13.90.0.20-2]
- fix TLS on IA-64 with ld relaxation

[2.13.90.0.20-1]
- update to 2.13.90.0.20

[2.13.90.0.18-9]
- rebuilt

[2.13.90.0.18-8]
- don't strip binaries in %install, so that there is non-empty
debuginfo

[2.13.90.0.18-7]
- don't optimize .eh_frame during ld -r

[2.13.90.0.18-6]
- don't clear elf_link_hash_flags in the .symver patch
- only use TC_FORCE_RELOCATION in s390's TC_FORCE_RELOCATION_SUB_SAME
(Alan Modra)

[2.13.90.0.18-5]
- fix the previous .symver change
- remove libbfd.so and libopcodes.so symlinks, so that other packages
link statically, not dynamically against libbfd and libopcodes
whose ABI is everything but stable

[2.13.90.0.18-4]
- do .symver x, x@FOO handling earlier
- support .file and .loc on s390*

[2.13.90.0.18-3]
- handle .symver x, x@FOO in ld such that relocs against x become
dynamic relocations against x@FOO (#83325)
- two PPC64 TLS patches (Alan Modra)

[2.13.90.0.18-2]
- fix SEARCH_DIR on x86_64/s390x
- fix Alpha --relax
- create DT_RELA{,SZ,ENT} on s390 even if there is just .rela.plt
and no .rela.dyn section
- support IA-32 on IA-64 (#83752)
- .eh_frame_hdr fix (Andreas Schwab)

[2.13.90.0.18-1]
- update to 2.13.90.0.18 + 20030121->20030206 CVS diff

[2.13.90.0.16-8]
- alpha TLS fixes
- use .debug_line directory table to make the section tiny bit smaller
- libtool fix from Jens Petersen

[2.13.90.0.16-7]
- sparc32 TLS

[2.13.90.0.16-6]
- s390{,x} TLS and two other mainframe patches

[2.13.90.0.16-5]
- fix IA-64 TLS IE in shared libs
- .{preinit,init,fini}_array compat hack from Alexandre Oliva

[2.13.90.0.16-4]
- IA-64 TLS fixes
- fix .plt sh_entsize on Alpha
- build with %_smp_mflags

[2.13.90.0.16-3]
- fix strip on TLS binaries and libraries

[2.13.90.0.16-2]
- fix IA-64 ld bootstrap

[2.13.90.0.16-1]
- update to 2.13.90.0.16
- STT_TLS SHN_UNDEF fix

[2.13.90.0.10-4]
- pad .rodata.cstNN sections at the end if they aren't sized to multiple
of sh_entsize
- temporary patch to make .eh_frame and .gcc_except_table sections
readonly if possible (should be removed when AUTO_PLACE is implemented)
- fix .PPC.EMB.apuinfo section flags

[2.13.90.0.10-3]
- fix names and content of alpha non-alloced .rela.* sections (#76583)
- delete unpackaged files from the buildroot

[2.13.90.0.10-2]
- enable s390x resp. s390 emulation in linker too

[2.13.90.0.10-1]
- update to 2.13.90.0.10
- add a bi-arch patch for sparc/s390/x86_64
- add --enable-64-bit-bfd on sparc, s390 and ppc

[2.13.90.0.4-3]
- fix combreloc testcase

[2.13.90.0.4-2]
- fix orphan .rel and .rela section placement with -z combreloc (Alan Modra)
- skip incompatible linker scripts when searching for libraries

[2.13.90.0.4-1]
- update to 2.13.90.0.4
- x86-64 TLS support
- some IA-32 TLS fixes
- some backported patches from trunk
- include opcodes, ld, gas and bfd l10n too

[2.13.90.0.2-3]
- allow addends for IA-32 TLS @tpoff, @ntpoff and @dtpoff
- clear memory at *r_offset of dynamic relocs on PPC
- avoid ld crash if accessing non-local symbols through LE relocs
- new IA-32 TLS relocs, bugfixes and testcases
- use brl insn on IA-64 (Richard Henderson)
- fix R_IA64_PCREL21{M,F} handling (Richard Henderson)
- build in separate builddir, so that gasp tests don't fail
- include localization

[2.13.90.0.2-2]
- fix R_386_TPOFF32 addends (#70824)

[2.13.90.0.2-1]
- update to 2.13.90.0.2
- fix ld TLS assertion failure (#70084)
- fix readelf --debug-dump= handling to match man page and --help
(#68997)
- fix _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE gas handling (#70241)

[2.12.90.0.15-1]
- update to 2.12.90.0.15
- TLS .tbss fix
- don't use rpm %configure macro, it is broken too often (#69366)

[2.12.90.0.9-1]
- update to 2.12.90.0.9
- TLS support
- remove gasp.info from %post/%preun (#65400)

[2.12.90.0.7-1]
- update to 2.12.90.0.7
- run make check

[2.11.93.0.2-12]
- fix .hidden handling on SPARC (Richard Henderson)
- don't crash when linking -shared non-pic code with SHF_MERGE
- fix .eh_frame_hdr for DW_EH_PE_aligned
- correctly adjust DW_EH_PE_pcrel encoded personalities in CIEs

[2.11.93.0.2-11]
- don't emit dynamic R_SPARC_DISP* relocs against STV_HIDDEN symbols
into shared libraries

[2.11.93.0.2-10]
- don't merge IA-64 unwind info sections together during ld -r

[2.11.93.0.2-9]
- fix DATA_SEGMENT_ALIGN on ia64/alpha/sparc/sparc64

[2.11.93.0.2-8]
- don't crash on SHN_UNDEF local dynsyms (Andrew MacLeod)

[2.11.93.0.2-7]
- fix bfd configury bug (Alan Modra)

[2.11.93.0.2-6]
- don't copy visibility when equating symbols
- fix alpha .text/.data with .previous directive bug

[2.11.93.0.2-5]
- fix SHF_MERGE crash with --gc-sections (#60369)
- C++ symbol versioning patch

[2.11.93.0.2-4]
- add DW_EH_PE_absptr -> DW_EH_PE_pcrel optimization for shared libs,
if DW_EH_PE_absptr cannot be converted that way, don't build the
.eh_frame_hdr search table

[2.11.93.0.2-3]
- fix ld -N broken by last patch

[2.11.93.0.2-2]
- trade one saved runtime page for data segment (=almost always not shared)
for up to one page of disk space where possible

[2.11.93.0.2-1]
- update to 2.11.93.0.2
- use %{ix86} instead of i386 for -z combreloc default (#59086)

[2.11.92.0.12-10]
- don't create SHN_UNDEF STB_WEAK symbols unless there are any relocations
against them

[2.11.92.0.12-9.1]
- rebuild (fix ia64 miscompilation)

* Wed Jan 09 2002 Tim Powers
- automated rebuild

[2.11.92.0.12-8]
- two further .eh_frame patch fixes

[2.11.92.0.12-7]
- as ld is currently not able to shrink input sections to zero size
during discard_info, build a fake minimal CIE in that case
- update elf-strtab patch to what was commited

[2.11.92.0.12-6]
- one more .eh_frame patch fix
- fix alpha .eh_frame handling
- optimize elf-strtab finalize

[2.11.92.0.12-5]
- yet another fix for the .eh_frame patch

[2.11.92.0.12-4]
- Alan Modra's patch to avoid crash if there is no dynobj

[2.11.92.0.12-3]
- H.J.'s patch to avoid crash if input files are not ELF
- don't crash if a SHF_MERGE for some reason could not be merged
- fix objcopy/strip to preserve SHF_MERGE sh_entsize
- optimize .eh_frame sections, add PT_GNU_EH_FRAME support
- support anonymous version tags in version script

[2.11.92.0.12-2]
- fix IA-64 SHF_MERGE handling

[2.11.92.0.12-1]
- update to 2.11.92.0.12
- optimize .dynstr and .shstrtab sections (#55524)
- fix ld.1 glitch (#55459)
- turn relocs against SHF_MERGE local symbols with zero addend
into STT_SECTION + addend
- remove man pages for programs not included (nlmconv, windres, dlltool;
- add BuildRequires for texinfo

[2.11.92.0.7-2]
- duh, fix strings on bfd objects (#55084)

[2.11.92.0.7-1]
- update to 2.11.92.0.7
- remove .rel{,a}.dyn from output if it is empty

[2.11.92.0.5-2]
- fix strings patch
- use getc_unlocked in strings to speed it up by 50% on large files

[2.11.92.0.5-1]
- update to 2.11.92.0.5
- binutils localization (#45148)
- fix typo in REPORT_BUGS_TO (#54325)
- support files bigger than 2GB in strings (#54406)

[2.11.90.0.8-12]
- on IA-64, don't mix R_IA64_IPLTLSB relocs with non-PLT relocs in
.rela.dyn section.

[2.11.90.0.8-11]
- add iplt support for IA-64 (Richard Henderson)
- switch to new section flags for SHF_MERGE and SHF_STRINGS, put
in compatibility code
- 's' section flag for small data sections on IA-64 and Alpha
(Richard Henderson)
- fix sparc64 .plt[32768+] handling
- don't emit .rela.stab on sparc

[2.11.90.0.8-10]
- fix SHF_MERGE on Sparc

[2.11.90.0.8-9]
- on Alpha, copy *r_offset to R_ALPHA_RELATIVE's r_addend

[2.11.90.0.8-8]
- on IA-64, put crtend{,S}.o's .IA_64.unwind section last in
.IA_64.unwind output section (for compatibility with 7.1 eh)

[2.11.90.0.8-7]
- put RELATIVE relocs first, not last
- enable -z combreloc by default on IA-{32,64}, Alpha, Sparc*

[2.11.90.0.8-6]
- support for -z combreloc
- remove .dynamic patch, -z combreloc patch does this better
- set STT_FUNC default symbol sizes in .endp directive on IA-64

[2.11.90.0.8-5]
- fix last patch (H.J.Lu)

[2.11.90.0.8-4]
- fix placing of orphan sections

* Sat Jun 23 2001 Jakub Jelinek
- fix SHF_MERGE support on Alpha

* Fri Jun 08 2001 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.11.90.0.8
- some SHF_MERGE suport fixes
- don't build with tooldir /usrusr instead of /usr (#40937)
- reserve few .dynamic entries for prelinking

* Mon Apr 16 2001 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.11.90.0.5
- SHF_MERGE support

* Tue Apr 03 2001 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.11.90.0.4
- fix uleb128 support, so that CVS gcc bootstraps
- some ia64 fixes

* Mon Mar 19 2001 Jakub Jelinek
- add -Bgroup support from Ulrich Drepper

* Fri Mar 09 2001 Jakub Jelinek
- hack - add elf_i386_glibc21 emulation

* Fri Feb 16 2001 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.10.91.0.2

* Fri Feb 09 2001 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.10.1.0.7
- remove ExcludeArch ia64
- back out the -oformat, -omagic and -output change for now

* Fri Dec 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- Prereq /sbin/install-info

* Tue Nov 21 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.10.1.0.2

* Tue Nov 21 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- add one more alpha patch

* Wed Nov 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- fix alpha visibility as problem
- add support for Ultra-III

* Fri Sep 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- and one more alpha patch

* Fri Sep 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- two sparc patches

* Mon Jul 24 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.10.0.18

* Mon Jul 10 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.10.0.12

* Mon Jun 26 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.10.0.9

* Thu Jun 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- fix ld -r

* Mon Jun 05 2000 Jakub Jelinek
- 2.9.5.0.46
- use _mandir/_infodir/_lib

* Mon May 08 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
- 2.9.5.0.41

* Wed Apr 12 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
- 2.9.5.0.34

* Wed Mar 22 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
- 2.9.5.0.31

* Fri Feb 04 2000 Cristian Gafton
- man pages are compressed
- apply kingdon's patch from #5031

* Wed Jan 19 2000 Jeff Johnson
- Permit package to be built with a prefix other than /usr.

* Thu Jan 13 2000 Cristian Gafton
- add pacth from hjl to fix the versioning problems in ld

* Tue Jan 11 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
- Add sparc patches from Jakub Jelinek
- Add URL:

* Tue Dec 14 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
- 2.9.5.0.22

* Wed Nov 24 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
- 2.9.5.0.19

* Sun Oct 24 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
- 2.9.5.0.16

* Mon Sep 06 1999 Jakub Jelinek
- make shared non-pic libraries work on sparc with glibc 2.1.

* Fri Aug 27 1999 Jim Kingdon
- No source/spec changes, just rebuilding with egcs-1.1.2-18 because
the older egcs was miscompling gprof.

* Mon Apr 26 1999 Cristian Gafton
- back out very *stupid* sparc patch done by HJLu. People, keep out of
things you don't understand.
- add alpha relax patch from rth

* Mon Apr 05 1999 Cristian Gafton
- version 2.9.1.0.23
- patch to make texinfo documentation compile
- auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 2)

* Tue Feb 23 1999 Cristian Gafton
- updated to 2.9.1.0.21
- merged with UltraPenguin

* Mon Jan 04 1999 Cristian Gafton
- added ARM patch from philb
- version 2.9.1.0.19a
- added a patch to allow arm* arch to be identified as an ARM

* Thu Oct 01 1998 Cristian Gafton
- updated to 2.9.1.0.14.

* Sat Sep 19 1998 Jeff Johnson
- updated to 2.9.1.0.13.

* Wed Sep 09 1998 Cristian Gafton
- updated to 2.9.1.0.12

* Thu Jul 02 1998 Jeff Johnson
- updated to 2.9.1.0.7.

* Wed Jun 03 1998 Jeff Johnson
- updated to 2.9.1.0.6.

* Tue Jun 02 1998 Erik Troan
- added patch from rth to get right offsets for sections in relocateable
objects on sparc32

* Thu May 07 1998 Prospector System
- translations modified for de, fr, tr

* Tue May 05 1998 Cristian Gafton
- version 2.9.1.0.4 is out; even more, it is public !

* Tue May 05 1998 Jeff Johnson
- updated to 2.9.1.0.3.

* Mon Apr 20 1998 Cristian Gafton
- updated to 2.9.0.3

* Tue Apr 14 1998 Cristian Gafton
- upgraded to 2.9.0.2

* Sun Apr 05 1998 Cristian Gafton
- updated to 2.8.1.0.29 (HJ warned me that this thing is a moving target...
:-)
- 'fixed' the damn make install command so that all tools get installed

* Thu Apr 02 1998 Cristian Gafton
- upgraded again to 2.8.1.0.28 (at least on alpha now egcs will compile)
- added info packages handling

* Tue Mar 10 1998 Cristian Gafton
- upgraded to 2.8.1.0.23

* Mon Mar 02 1998 Cristian Gafton
- updated to 2.8.1.0.15 (required to compile the newer glibc)
- all patches are obsoleted now

* Wed Oct 22 1997 Erik Troan
- added 2.8.1.0.1 patch from hj
- added patch for alpha palcode form rth




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