Binutils 2.20.1

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> writes:

> are any gold updates planned for 2.20.1? For a rebuild test with gold
> as the default linker I would like to see a fix for 11072 on the
> branch (objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink is used a lot for package
> building). Other missing features/options are summarized by Peter
> Fritzsche in [1].

Since you asked, I have committed the patch for PR 11072 to the
binutils 2.20 branch.

I believe that all the options mentioned in Peter Fritzsche's Debian
bug report are now supported in the mainline version of gold.  But I'm
a little reluctant to simply copy mainline into the 2.20 branch as
they have had very little testing.  I was willing to risk total
breakage for 2.20.0 but I don't want 2.20.1 to be worse than 2.20.0.


> is there a chance that the --enable-gold= patch is approved for the
> trunk and backported to the branch?

I think this patch is still pending approval by a binutils maintainer.

Ian


11072 patch committed to 2.20 branch:


2010-01-13  Ian Lance Taylor  <iant@google.com>

	Bring over from mainline:
	2010-01-08  Ian Lance Taylor  <iant@google.com>

	PR 11072
	* layout.cc (Layout::include_section): Remove .gnu_debuglink
	sections.


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