-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2018-1e994c659e 2018-03-13 23:10:46.414578 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : binutils Product : Fedora 27 Version : 2.29 Release : 13.fc27 URL : http://sources.redhat.com/binutils Summary : A GNU collection of binary utilities Description : Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A bug fix update: * Fix a slowdown in objdump. * Re-enable gold for PowerPC64 and s390x. * Have readelf display extra symbol information at the end of the line. * Do not enable relro by default for the PowerPC64 architecture. * Stop strip from crashing when deleteing relocs in a file with annobin notes. * Have readelf return an exit failure status when attempting to process an empty file. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1491023 - memtest86+ FTBFS in Rawhide -- segfaults on linking memtest.bin https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491023 [ 2 ] Bug #1522732 - readelf exit status is 0 for empty zero-length file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1522732 [ 3 ] Bug #1520805 - kexec-tools build Segmentation fault https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1520805 [ 4 ] Bug #1523946 - [ppc64] ld switch to relro breaks GDB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1523946 [ 5 ] Bug #1479302 - binutils 2.29 breaks build of ruby on PPC64LE https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479302 [ 6 ] Bug #1173780 - re-enable gold for ppc64/ppc64le and s390x https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173780 [ 7 ] Bug #1551540 - Huge slowdown in objdump -d caused by scanning the dynamic relocs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551540 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade binutils' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
