From: Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r356379 - head/share/mk Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 12:17:21 -0600
> There are no firm plans at the moment. However, it looks like it's not used > except for powerpc. I'd expect that once the issues there are resolved with > clang, or that platform migrates to an external toolchain, binutils in > base's days will be numbered since it is GPL and the project has a long > term goal of being GPL free where possible. From: Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r356379 - head/share/mk Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 13:17:32 -0500 > There's no specific plan, but it is an ongoing goal. Only three > binutils tools are used (for bootstrapping and in the installed > system): as, ld, and objdump. > > BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP is enabled on x86, 32-bit arm, and powerpc. At > least both x86 archs still use GNU as for a few files; there's work in > progress to migrate to Clang's IAS for all assembly files. I am not > sure if bootstrap as actually gets used on arm or powerpc. objdump is > also built, but not used on any arch. ld is built on powerpc and still > being used there; it's not built on x86 or 32-bit arm. > > Making further progress depends on lld maturing (for powerpc) and > addressing the assembler issue. There's no commitment to removing > binutils for 13.0 but there is a reasonable probability we'll be able > to do so. Thank you for reply. I understand current status and hope binutils is successfully removed from base system before the release of 13.0. --- Yasuhiro KIMURA _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
