On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 12:11:21PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > The binutils in our ports tree was the last binutils to support the Gold > linker. A previous exp-run for 2.45.1 showed us that a number of ports > failures were due to the missing linker. > > I've decided to import binutils 2.47 into ports. I think the path forward > is to address ports failures due do the removed feature. > > Do we want to rename the current binutils to binutils244 and import 2.47 as > binutils? Or would going "cold turkey" be advisable?
Well, how many ports break ? If it's like 10 obscure leaf ports that are dead upstream, going cold turkey can work, if it's like 100 or more with more ports depending on them that won't be available any more, please ask for an exp-run and fix them before updating. -- Mathieu Arnold
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