gold uses g++ to link which doesn't recognise -all-static. It appears as
if -static should work for both libtool and g++ but for some reason it
doesn't. Remove the restriction that gold can't be included in a static
toolchain. When a static toolchain is requested pass
--with-gold-ldflags=--static to configure. Finally build gold separately
so it does not get the extra_make_flags which may contain -all-static.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Based on the configure.ac for binutils it appears that arm, loongarch,
mips, powerpc, s390, sparch and x86 are supported. Expand the list of
architectures that gold is allowed to be used on.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
This reverts commit 0841e2f820 from 2011,
which disabled plugin support in binutils for static toolchains, citing
build system problems. This problem seems to be resolved.
This also reverts part of 45512b003d from
2017, which disabled LTO in gcc for static toolchains, citing problems
on Arch Linux with loading the LTO plugin from a static binary.
Signed-off-by: Chris Copeland <chris@chrisnc.net>
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2022-August/122246.html
Add binutils 2.39 and regenerate patches.
0008-binutils-2.38-vs.-ppc32-linux-kernel.patch is dropped as it has
been applied upstream. Add a milestone for 2.39 which will be handy for
Loongarch.
Binutils now requires bison >= 3.0.4 to build gprofng for x86/aarch64 so
we build our own bison when the host bison does not meet that
requirement (which appears to be the case on macOS).
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Versions before 2.26 got removed in fa992b41, together with
CT_BINUTILS_2_23_or_later.
Remove reference to this variable
Signed-off-by: Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com>
The following versions were marked obsolete in crosstool-ng-1.24.0,
remove them.
- binutils-linaro-2.23.2-2013.10-4
- binutils-linaro-2.24.0-2014.11-2
- binutils-linaro-2.25.0-2015.01-2
- binutils-2.23.2
- binutils-2.24
- binutils-2.25.1
Adjust the milestones now that the old versions have been removed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
This allows us to include the component-to-package relation in the
generated kconfig files and make use of that information in the
show-config.sh script.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>
It was previously picked up as "tail options" config file, .in.2.
Now we only have a single config file for each component.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>
... it is possible to just not set it in the configuration, why force
it? It just increases the complexity in Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>
Hence, it is better to enforce via config rules: elf2flt does not
play nice with ld wrapper, when both ld.bfd and ld.gold are present.
Limit the choices to just 'ld.bfd' for flat-format architectures.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>
Linaro GDB 7.2 no longer available from Linaro's website; removed.
Linaro GDB 7.5 had incorrect version (the tarball on linaro.org does
not have a -1 patch level).
Add/update latest versions on each (otherwise supported) branches of
GCC, GDB, binutils, glibc.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>
elf2flt is now hosted on github here:
https://github.com/uclinux-dev/elf2flt
But, until arm support is upstream, we'll switch to Waldemar Brodkorb
version of elf2flt.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
Since older GCC versions have been removed, older versions of binutils
are not needed.
This commit removes these older versions.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
The gold linker cannot currently be built in a static toolchain build.
This may get fixed in a future version of crosstool-NG.
Also, there is a bit of weirdness here. versions of binutils >= 2.21
have GOLD (BINUTILS_HAS_GOLD), but that doesn't mean it should be used.
For instance, if the architecture is not supported.
So with that, we create a new hidden option: BINUTILS_GOLD_SUPPORT
Which in turn depends on BINUTILS_GOLD_SUPPORTS_ARCH, BINUTILS_HAS_GOLD,
and not STATIC_TOOLCHAIN... then replace anything that previously
depended on BINUTILS_HAS_GOLD with our new BINUTILS_GOLD_SUPPORT option.
This closes#210
Signed-off-by: Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
Support binutils 2.25.1 in configuration.
Note: The patches do apply, but I didn't check the resulting tools.
Signed-off-by: Jasmin Jessich <jasmin@anw.at>
As posted on http://www.eglibc.org/
====================
EGLIBC is no longer developed and such goals are now being addressed
directly in GLIBC.
====================
I'm not interested in maintaining build support for unsupported
software.
Older branches of crosstool-ng continue to have eglibc support.
If you find issues with older branches, I'm always open to pull
requests.
Removing eglibc also frees up glibc cleanup and build optimization.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
No need to 'select' gold and plugins in versions later
than 2.21, since we inherit them with 2_21_or_later.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Thus spake Niels:
This commit adds support for binutils 2.23.2
http://crosstool-ng.org/hg/crosstool-ng/rev/bc4b36e3df0c
However, in 'config/binutils/binutils.in <http://binutils.in>' the
Kconfig option to select this version of binutils does not automatically
select the symbol 'BINUTILS_2_23_or_later'. This makes gold unavailable
for the latest version of binutils. I'm not sure whether this is on
purpose or not, my impression is that you forgot to add the line "select
BINUTILS_2_23_or_later".
The problem still persists in the latest version in the repository
(032ebcc89c96).
Reported-by: Niels Penneman <niels@penneman.org>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
