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binutils package

gold linker for s390x

Bug #1709873 reported by Vivian Kong
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Bug Description

Gold linker support is available on s390x. Can it be included in the binutils package for s390x?

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18378
https://github.com/linux-on-ibm-z/docs/wiki/Building-Gold-Linker

Tags: s390x
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package binutils - 2.29-5ubuntu1

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binutils (2.29-5ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build from upstream sources.

binutils (2.29-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update, taken from the 2.29 branch 20170820.
    - Fix PR binutils/21962, buffer overrun when parsing a corrupt tekhex
      binary.
    - Fix PR ld/18808: [AArch64] Skip IFUNC relocations in debug sections.
    - Fix PR ld/18841: [AArch64] ifunc relocation ordering.
    - [AArch64] Turn lr, fp, ip0 and ip1 into proper aliases.
    - Fix PR ld/21923.
  * Build gold on s390x. LP: #1709873.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sun, 20 Aug 2017 19:08:25 +0200

Changed in binutils (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Vivian Kong (vivkong) wrote :

Can this be backported to xenial?

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

> Can this be backported to xenial?

I would like to avoid that. gold could be picked up unintentionally with unexpected results. Would it be possible for you to use a PPA build instead?

Frank Heimes (fheimes)
tags: added: s390x
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