src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils, branch mainFreeBSD source treehttps://cgit-dev.freebsd.org/src/atom?h=main2020-12-15T17:44:19ZRetire obsolete GDB 6.1.12020-12-15T17:44:19ZEd Masteemaste@FreeBSD.org2020-12-15T17:44:19Zurn:sha1:1c0ea326aa6d30385a69bd1d93ee161cfbe59a5a
GDB 6.1.1 was released in June 2004 and is long obsolete. It does not
support all of the architectures that FreeBSD does, and imposes
limitations on the FreeBSD kernel build, such as the continued use of
DWARF2 debugging information.
It was kept (in /usr/libexec/) only for use by crashinfo(8), which
extracts some basic information from a kernel core dump after a crash.
Crashinfo already prefers gdb from port/package if installed.
Future work may add kernel debug support to LLDB or find another path
for crashinfo's needs, but in any case we do not want to ship the
excessively outdated GDB in FreeBSD 13.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27610
Remove now-unused GNU as build infrastructure2020-06-07T13:53:23ZEd Masteemaste@FreeBSD.org2020-06-07T13:53:23Zurn:sha1:90b9aa475e9e80845dd6bbde40e749ae72c11557Retire BINUTILS and BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP options2020-06-07T00:07:21ZEd Masteemaste@FreeBSD.org2020-06-07T00:07:21Zurn:sha1:74e8d41e0ac818cfcb020b8bccbc39b0e264f47f
As of r361857 all BINUTILS options are disabled by default - ports
have been changed to depend on binutils if they require GNU as, and
all base system assembly files have been switched to use Clang's
integrated assembler.
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Remove GNU objcopy and objdump build infrastructure2020-06-06T02:45:57ZEd Masteemaste@FreeBSD.org2020-06-06T02:45:57Zurn:sha1:0ad202f312f6da4f2774ecb7a3f3c2a05b3dde5f
We haven't used the GNU versions of these tools for some time.
binutils: build as with BINUTILS || BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP2020-05-30T19:16:33ZEd Masteemaste@FreeBSD.org2020-05-30T19:16:33Zurn:sha1:af097a7d500a9b798bd90bf978d95ff15c484dac
Previously we descended into as only if MK_BINUTILS was true, including
during the bootstrap tool phase. BINUTILS is now disabled by default on
all archs, and we failed to build it during amd64 bootstrap.
Descend into as if either BINUTILS or BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP is enabled.
This is not quite correct: we should either have the test also depend on
BOOTSTRAPPING, or set BINUTILS to the value of BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP during
the bootstrap phase. However, this simple change fixes the build and
has been tested, and binutils will be removed completely in the near
future.
binutils: disconnect objdump from the build2020-05-06T18:38:40ZEd Masteemaste@FreeBSD.org2020-05-06T18:38:40Zurn:sha1:80b7615484dbbe269123dd23a14fdee2540a0b7d
The in-tree binutils is old and will not be updated. It does not support
all archs supported by FreeBSD, and for the archs it does support not all
CPU features are supported.
Other tools have migrated to copyfree alternatives. Although llvm-objdump
is nearly a drop-in replacement for GNU objdump it is missing a few options
and has some differences in output format. For now just remove GNU objdump;
ports and developers can use a contemporary, maintained version from ports
or packages. We can revisit installing llvm-objdump as objdump in the
future.
PR: 212319 [exp-run]
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7338
remove binutils ld leftovers2020-03-27T19:17:45ZEd Masteemaste@FreeBSD.org2020-03-27T19:17:45Zurn:sha1:93e59da23871325a1156150cb1ed5f488a23c6beNow that there are no remaining users of ld.bfd, remove the ld subdir.2020-03-27T01:12:11ZBrandon Bergrenbdragon@FreeBSD.org2020-03-27T01:12:11Zurn:sha1:ded22b4527ff4f981cbf563d0ed741c4a3bd2587[PowerPC] Switch powerpc and powerpcspe to lld2020-03-27T01:00:03ZBrandon Bergrenbdragon@FreeBSD.org2020-03-27T01:00:03Zurn:sha1:a04ec978b369e3a2651b050fff8b11aaf0a9dcd7
Now that LLD 10 is out, and required patches have landed, we are now ready
to finally switch away from the ancient in-tree ld.bfd.
Special thanks to Fangrui Song for many hours of work on getting the
32-bit powerpc lld ready for prime-time.
Reviewed by: emaste (earlier revision), jhibbits
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24111
limit building GNU assembler (as) to x862020-01-19T19:16:32ZEd Masteemaste@FreeBSD.org2020-01-19T19:16:32Zurn:sha1:7793be975280a69f1c0bfb5fee3c6ec0da356a7f
GNU as 2.17.50 is currently required by amd64 and i386 for at least one
file that cannot be assembled by Clang's integrated assembler (IAS).
Other supported CPU architectures either use Clang IAS for all assembly
files, or rely on external toolchain.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23180