Changelog for
binutils-gold-2.37-24.fc36.x86_64.rpm :
* Wed Jan 19 2022 Fedora Release Engineering
- 2.37-24- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Dec 20 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-23- Fix a potential illegal memory access parsing a COFF format file. (#2033716)
* Thu Dec 02 2021 Luca Boccassi - 2.37-22- Backport upstream patch to allow readelf to recognize packaging metadata note.
* Wed Dec 01 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-21- Add support for the EFI format to the AArch64 target. (#2027515)
* Thu Nov 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-20- Add ability to warn about multibyte characters in the assembler. (#2018848)
* Tue Nov 16 2021 Luca Boccassi - 2.37-19- Allows linker scripts to set the SEC_READONLY flag.
* Tue Nov 09 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-18- Add ability to show unicode characters to display tools.
* Wed Oct 27 2021 Orion Poplawski - 2.37-17- Add upstream patch to use the directory name in .file 0, fixes ccache FTBFS (bz#1996936)
* Tue Oct 26 2021 Timm Baeder - 2.27-16- Remove leftover libtool files.
* Wed Oct 13 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.27-15- Fix linker seg-fault compiling efivar libraries. (#2012247)
* Wed Sep 29 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.27-14- Fix linker testsuite failures triggered by 2.27-13 patch. (#2008203)
* Fri Sep 17 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.27-13- Default to an entry address of 0 for shared libraries. (#2004952)
* Mon Sep 13 2021 Tom Stellard - 2.37-12- Disable LTO on arm. (#1918924)
* Tue Aug 31 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-11- Enable -separate-code for all architectures, not just x86/x86_64.
* Tue Aug 31 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-10- Allow configuring with autonconf 2.71. (#1999437)
* Wed Aug 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-9- Fix a few testsuite failures.
* Wed Aug 11 2021 Stephen Gallagher - 2.37-8- Backport upstream patch to fix fd exhaustion- Resolves: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28138
* Tue Aug 10 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-6- Ensure that the manual pages are generated. (#1989836)
* Tue Aug 10 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-5- Fix a local change to readelf which resulted in a success exit code for non-existant files. (#1990817)
* Mon Aug 09 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-4- Ensure that dir[0] contains pwd in gas generated DWARF-5 directory tables. (#1966987)
* Wed Jul 21 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.37-3- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jul 21 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-2- Various fixes for testsuite failures.
* Mon Jul 19 2021 Nick Clifton - 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
* Mon Jun 21 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-15- Enable the creation of .note.gnu.property sections by the GOLD linker for x86 binaries. (#1970961)
* Thu Jun 03 2021 Timm Bäder - 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.
* Tue May 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-13- Increase number of file descriptors available to plugins. (#1918924)- Remove uses of RPATH.
* Tue May 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-12- Generate PLT relocs for weak undefined PPC function symbols. (#1960730)
* Fri May 14 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-11- Enable file descriptor increase for plugin use.
* Thu May 13 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-10- Enable use of new dtags.
* Fri May 07 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-9- Fix stack exhaustion in the rust demangler. (#1956424)
* Thu Mar 25 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-8- Add an explicit dependency upon autoconf 2.69. (#1942991)
* Thu Mar 11 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-7- Extend vulnerability fix yet again. (#1925779)
* Mon Feb 22 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-6- Fix merging ppc64le notes (again). (#1928936)
* Fri Feb 19 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-5- Unretire the CVE 2021-20197 patch.
* Fri Feb 19 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-4- Add support for the Z extensions to the s390x architecture.
* Thu Feb 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-3- Fix merging ppc64le notes. (#1928936)
* Fri Feb 12 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-2- Fix testsuite failures triggered by locally applied patches.
* Thu Feb 11 2021 Nick Clifton - 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
* Mon Feb 08 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-34- Extend vulnerability fix again. (#1925779)
* Thu Feb 04 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-33- Preserve debug information in libbfd.a and libopcodes.a. (#1924068)
* Thu Feb 04 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-32- Extend vulnerability fix again. (#1913744)
* Wed Feb 03 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-31- Enable PEP support for all targets. (#1920373)
* Tue Feb 02 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-30- Extend vulnerability fix. (#1913744)
* Mon Feb 01 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-29- Add support for DWARF-5 sections to the bfd linker\'s scripts. (#1922707)
* Fri Jan 29 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-28- Fix a vulnerability in the smart_rename function. (#1913744)
* Thu Jan 28 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-27- Fix failures is gas and ld testsuites.
* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.35.1-26- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Jan 25 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-25- Update the BFD library to handle DWARF-5 line number ranges.
* Thu Jan 21 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-24- Update the GOLD linker to handle x86 .note.gnu.property sections. (#1916925)
* Mon Jan 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-23- Add a fix to gas to automatically enable DWARF-5 style file name tables.
* Fri Jan 15 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-22- Add an option (currently disabled) to build a linker which generates new dtags.
* Tue Jan 12 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-21- Ensure that bfd.h is the same for i686- and x86_64 versions of the devel rpm. (#1915317)
* Fri Jan 08 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-20- Fix bug running readelf on an empty file. (#1903448)
* Thu Jan 07 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-19- Fix bug running readelf on a file that cannot be read. (#1913589)
* Mon Jan 04 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-18- Fix linking with multiple same-name sections. (PR 27100)
* Mon Jan 04 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-17- Fix linking mixed SHF_LINK_ORDER and non-SHF_LINK_ORDER sections. (#1907945)
* Thu Nov 26 2020 Florian Weimer - 2.35.1-16- NVR bump for toolchain rebuild
* Wed Nov 25 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-15- Import fixes added to the 2.35 branch after the 2.35.1 release.
* Tue Nov 10 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-14- Add support for DW_FORM_ref8 when parsing DWARF types. (#1893921)
* Tue Nov 03 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-13- Extend fix for erroneous decoding of LEB128 values.
* Tue Nov 03 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-12- Another correction for plugin as-needed patch. (#1889763)
* Wed Oct 28 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-11- Correction for plugin as-needed patch. (#1889763)
* Tue Oct 27 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-8- Really fix erroneous decoding of LEB128 values. (#1891171)
* Wed Oct 21 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-7- Fix erroneous decoding of LEB128 values. (#188716)
* Thu Oct 15 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-6- Make readelf and objdump recursively follow debug links. (PR 26595)
* Fri Oct 09 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-5- Allow plugin syms to mark as-needed shared libs needed
* Thu Oct 08 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-4- Fix various problems with Power10 support.
* Tue Oct 06 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-3- Fix strip when merging multiple same-named sections. (#1885607)
* Mon Sep 21 2020 Nick Clifton - 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
* Fri Sep 11 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-14- Fix the PowerPC disassembler so that it ignores annobin symbols.
* Thu Sep 10 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-13- Fix the handling of relocations for AArch64 conditional branches.
* Tue Aug 25 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-12- Import fixes from GNU binutils mainline for handling DWARF-5 debug information.
* Mon Aug 24 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-11- Rename the PPC xvcvbf16sp instruction to xvcvbf16spn.
* Fri Jul 31 2020 Jeff Law - 2.35-10- Re-enable LTO
* Fri Jul 31 2020 Jeff Law - 2.35-9- Disable LTO for bootstrapping purposes
* Fri Jul 31 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-8- Fix building with LTO enabled.
* Fri Jul 31 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-7- Set the sh_entsize field of the AArch64\'s PLT section to 0. (PR 26312)
* Thu Jul 30 2020 Richard W.M. Jones - 2.35-6- Disable LTO again, it causes \"ar\" to segfault.
* Thu Jul 30 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-5- Default to DWARF level 3 in the assembler.
* Mon Jul 27 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.35-3- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
* Sun Jul 26 2020 Jeff Law - 2.35-2- Disable LTO for now
* Sun Jul 26 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-1- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.35. (#1854613)
* Mon Jul 20 2020 Jeff Law - 2.34-9- Fix more configure tests compromised by LTO.
* Sun Jul 19 2020 Jeff Law - 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.
* Tue Jul 07 2020 Jeff Law - 2.34-8- Switch to using %autosetup.
* Tue Jun 16 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.34-7- Add BPF support to the s390x target. (#1825193)
* Tue May 26 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.34-6- Enhance the error message displayed by the BFD library when it fails to load a plugin. (#1836618)
* Fri May 22 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.34-5- Rebase to tip of GNU Binutils 2.34 branch, brining in LTO fixes.- Retire: binutils-nm-lto-plugin.patch
* Tue Apr 28 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.34-4- Fix seg fault when loading plugins via symlinks. (#1828587)
* Fri Apr 17 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.34-3- Add support for the BPF target. (#1825193)
* Sun Feb 16 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.34-2- Fix the plugin support architecture to allow proper symbol info handling. (PR 25355)
* Sun Feb 02 2020 Nick Clifton - 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
* Tue Jan 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.33.1-13- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jan 23 2020 David Abdurachmanov - 2.33.1-12- Enable 64-bit BFD and PEP support for riscv. (#1794343)