On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote: > Here is a summary of the changes: > > binutils-2.21-1 > - major upstream update > - provide gold linker as ld.gold (default remains the usual bfd linker) > > glibc-2.12.2-1 > - *minimum kernel version required = 2.6.27* > - bump to latest upstream > - build completely outside source directory > - remove patches included upstream > - update patch for origin privilege exploit from Fedora > - keep scsi.h > - provide gai.conf (FS#21742) > > linux-api-headers-2.6.36.2-1 > - bump to latest upstream > - remove scsi.h (back in glibc) > > gcc-4.5.2-1 > - upstream update > - removed de_DE check as > - fix/clarify some pkgdesc values > > libtool-2.4-2 > - gcc verbump rebuild > > > You can see the current toolchain testsuite status at > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Toolchain . There are some > failures there that I am still looking into, but nothing to be concerned > about... > > One binutils issues that people may want to keep an eye out for is > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12327 . This only affects > people building kernels with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y (not used in the Arch > kernels) who will get a boot panic. > > Other than that, the binutils update seems relatively issue free. I have > been running it on my system for the last week while waiting on the glibc > and gcc releases without noticing any issues. > > Allan >
Seems to work fine, signoff both.
