Re: Binutils 2.18 available

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich at novell dot com>]

Thanks, Daniel. Nevertheless, a question: is it known that on (at least) i386-linux
ld's selective[456] tests produce an assertion failure, causing two unexpected
failures (which seems not really nice for a release and a pretty important
architecture):

gcc  -B/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/ld/tmpdir/gas/ -I/usr/local/src/binutils-2.18/ld/testsuite/ld-selective -g -O2   -L/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/./ld -w -O -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fvtable-gc -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -c /usr/local/src/binutils-2.18/ld/testsuite/ld-selective/3.cc -o tmpdir/3.o
/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/ld/ld-new  -o tmpdir/3.x --gc-sections -Bstatic  tmpdir/3.o
/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/ld/ld-new: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.18 assertion fail /usr/local/src/binutils-2.18/bfd/elf32-i386.c:1273
FAIL: selective4
gcc  -B/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/ld/tmpdir/gas/ -I/usr/local/src/binutils-2.18/ld/testsuite/ld-selective -g -O2   -L/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/./ld -w -O -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fvtable-gc -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -c /usr/local/src/binutils-2.18/ld/testsuite/ld-selective/4.cc -o tmpdir/4.o
/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/ld/ld-new  -o tmpdir/4.x --gc-sections -Bstatic  tmpdir/4.o
/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/ld/ld-new: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.18 assertion fail /usr/local/src/binutils-2.18/bfd/elf32-i386.c:1273
FAIL: selective5
gcc  -B/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/ld/tmpdir/gas/ -I/usr/local/src/binutils-2.18/ld/testsuite/ld-selective -g -O2   -L/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/./ld -w -O -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fvtable-gc -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -c /usr/local/src/binutils-2.18/ld/testsuite/ld-selective/5.cc -o tmpdir/5.o
/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/ld/ld-new  -o tmpdir/5.x --gc-sections -Bstatic  tmpdir/5.o
/home/jbeulich/build/binutils/2.18-base/ld/ld-new: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.18 assertion fail /usr/local/src/binutils-2.18/bfd/elf32-i386.c:1273
XFAIL: selective6

Jan

>>> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> 29.08.07 00:08 >>>
I have placed binutils 2.18 on sourceware.org and ftp.gnu.org in the
usual places, e.g. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/.

9d22ee4dafa3a194457caf4706f9cf01  binutils-2.18.tar.bz2
d71b23b4fb91e66802ca2b8f576629f4  binutils-2.18.tar.gz

As usual, thanks to everyone who helped prepare this release.  The
branch remains open for bug fixes; if there are enough to justify it,
I'll prepare a point release in one or two months.

I built and tested the release for a selection of 38 ELF-based
targets; the most popular platforms had no failures, and the others
had only a small assortment of problems.  Well, with one exception:
the ARC disassembler appears to be broken, which messes up the gas
testsuite awfully.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery