Re: HEADS UP binutils Gold Removed

Cy Schubert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
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athieu Arnold writes:
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> On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 12:11:21PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > The binutils in our ports tree was the last binutils to support the Gold=
> =20
> > linker. A previous exp-run for 2.45.1 showed us that a number of ports=20
> > failures were due to the missing linker.
> >=20
> > I've decided to import binutils 2.47 into ports. I think the path forward=
> =20
> > is to address ports failures due do the removed feature.
> >=20
> > Do we want to rename the current binutils to binutils244 and import 2.47 =
> as=20
> > binutils? Or would going "cold turkey" be advisable?
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> Well, how many ports break ? If it's like 10 obscure leaf ports that are
> dead upstream, going cold turkey can work, if it's like 100 or more with
> more ports depending on them that won't be available any more, please
> ask for an exp-run and fix them before updating.

I've submitted an exp-run PR and we will find out.


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