Changelog for
binutils-gold-2.38-27.fc37.x86_64.rpm :
* Tue May 02 2023 Nick Clifton
- 2.38-27- GOLD: Stop an abort triggered by running dwp on a file with no dwo links. (#2192226)
* Thu Mar 30 2023 Nick Clifton - 2.38-26- Linker: Do not associate allocated reloc sections with the .symtab section. (#2166419)
* Wed Nov 16 2022 Yara Ahmad - 2.38-25- Fic configuration of s390x binutils so that it does not include support for extraneous targets. (#2139143)- Fix readelf\'s decoding of files with no sections. (#2131609) - Stop potential infinite loop in the binutils DWARF parser. (#2122675)
* Wed Sep 07 2022 Yara Ahmad - 2.38-24- Improving the performance of bfd function lookup_func_by_offset
* Thu Aug 04 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-23- Add the --package-metadata option to the linkers. (#2099999)
* Thu Jul 28 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-22- Fix a couple of x86_64 linker testsuite failures.
* Tue Jul 26 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-21- Tweak the PowerPC assembler\'s handling of the .machine directive. (#2111082)
* Tue Jul 26 2022 Amit Shah - 2.38-20- Check and enable 64-bit bfd on aarch64 and riscv64.
* Mon Jul 25 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-19- Restore the use of --enable-64-bit-bfd for the AArch64 and riscv64 targets.
* Wed Jul 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.38-18- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jun 30 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-16- Fix a problem honouring readelf\'s -wE and -wN command line options.
* Mon Jun 13 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-15- Fix a problem with PowerPC\'s handling of DT_RELR relocs. (#2095622)- Move annobin data into a separate debuginfo file.
* Wed Jun 08 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-14- Fix bugs preventing the linker tests from running.
* Fri May 27 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-14- Fix bug in binutils.spec file that was causing the wrong linker flags to be used.
* Fri May 27 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-13- Change the ld man page so that it says that --enable-new-dtags is the default. (#2090818)
* Tue May 24 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-12- x86 linker: Disallow invalid relocations against protected symbols. (#2089358)
* Fri May 20 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-11- Stop readelf and objdump from unnecessarily following links. (#2086863)
* Thu May 19 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-10- Add support for generating static PIE binaries for s390x. (#2088331)
* Thu May 12 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-9- Fix description of gold subpackage so that it does not include the Requires fields. (#2082919)
* Mon Apr 04 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-8- Fix linker testsuite failures.
* Wed Mar 30 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-7- Fix a bug handling indirect symbols. (PR 28879) (#2068343)
* Thu Mar 10 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-6- Simplify the assembler\'s evaluation of chained .loc view expressions. [Second attempt] (#2059646)
* Thu Mar 10 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-5- Add an option to objdump/readelf to disable accessing debuginfod servers. (#2051741)
* Wed Mar 09 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-4- Simplify the assembler\'s evaluation of chained .loc view expressions. (#2059646)
* Mon Feb 28 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-3- Do not export any windows tools (if they were built). (#2057636)
* Wed Feb 16 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-2- Add support for specifying a section type in linker scripts. (#2052801)
* Wed Feb 09 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-1- Rebase on GNU Binutils 2.38.
* Thu Jan 27 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.37-25- Borrow a patch from the GCC package to stop libtool from inserting needless runpaths into binaries. (#2030667)
* 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)