On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 13:17 -0500, Ed Maste wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 12:53, Yasuhiro KIMURA <y...@utahime.org> > wrote: > > > > Just out of curiosity, is there any retirement plan for binutils in > > base system at the moment? > > 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. >
I just set WITHOUT_BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP in src.conf and did an arm32 crossbuild from amd64 after an rm -rf in $objdir, and both kernel and world built successfully. -- Ian > 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. _______________________________________________ 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"
