The 2.46 release of the GNU Binutils is now available

[Xi Ruoyao]

On Tue, 2026-02-10 at 09:41 +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> > > We are pleased to announce that version 2.46 of the GNU Binutils project
> > > sources have been released and are now available for download at:
> 
> > since there was no reaction so far to the earlier similar request: What about
> > the plain binutils-2.46.tar.*?
> 
> Sorry for missing the previous discussions.  Is the idea that you want the
> releases to just be called "binutils-<number>.tar.<compression>" regardless
> of whether they contain the sources for gold ?
> 
> I can certainly do that.  But will users be confused if they download a
> tarball (for an odd numbered release) and do not find the gold sources ?

IMO it'd be easier if we have both binutils-2.46.tar.xz and binutils-
2.46-with-gold.tar.xz, one with gold and one without, like 2.44.

I.e. since 2.44 binutils-x.xx.tar.xz should always lack gold, so the
distros won't need to adapt whenever they update binutils if they've
already started to use the no-gold configuration at 2.44.

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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>