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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-binutils-2.24.0.1.acd6540-1 (x86/x86_64)


On 4/2/2014 06:10, JonY wrote:
> On 4/2/2014 01:13, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>> On 2014-03-30 16:58, JonY wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Version 2.24.0.1.acd6540-1 of mingw64-*-binutils have been uploaded.
>>>
>>> This is a bug fix release from git.
>>>
>> This must be more than a simple bug fix release.
>>
>> I’m talking about the
>> mingw64-x86_64-binutils-2.24.0.1.acd6540-1.tar.xz,
>> which does not contain usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld.exe
>> although mingw64-x86_64-binutils-2.24.0.0.5a026fc-1.tar.xz did.
>>
>> This prevents me from compiling the last cygwin snapshot (target cyglsa64.dll
>> fails because of ‘ld’ missing).
>>
>> More than that, the new package contains usr/share/info/binutils.info
>> (which the previous one didn’t), but this file is already provided
>> by the binutils-2.24.51-2 package (with the .gz suffix, i must
>> however recognize).
>>
>> Please someone to confirm that this new mingw64-x86_64-binutils
>> package is indeed ok.
>>
> 
> This problem is only affecting the 32bit Cygwin release, which is using
> the same cygport and source, which is very strange. Anyway, please roll
> back for now.
> 

I am told that this is happening due to a bug in an earlier binutils
release, though it still seems to be happening with -2.

The error, for reference when linking ld.exe:
default-manifest.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized


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