[Buildroot] Legacy patches for Binutils?

Alexey Brodkin alexey.brodkin at synopsys.com
Fri Oct 19 12:24:26 UTC 2018


Hello,

This might be quite a naïve and silly question but I'd like to understand
if some patches for Binutils are still really needed.

1. https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/package/binutils/2.31.1/0002-ld-makefile.patch
This one I may track down to at least 2.15.94.0.2.2 here:
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/toolchain/binutils/?id=c1f119b500b487dac34a730609e6a0f1c30f8bfd
Also from that patch I may conclude it came from Debian still no rationale why it was
created, what it fixe or improves...

But in OpenEmbedded they got rid of it long ago on switch to 2.26, see
https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commit/3c7fe424f850af70989ad682dd9c5be70cd02ca5

2. Same here: https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/package/binutils/2.31.1/0003-check-ldrunpath-length.patch

3. This one is pretty much the same: https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/tree/package/binutils/2.31.1/0004-add-sysroot-fix-from-bug-3049.patch
And bug mentioned in this patch was "fixed" a long ago, see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10340

Any thoughts?

-Alexey


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