A binutils bug fix update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.
Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2020-5518
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2020-5518.html
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:
x86_64:
binutils-devel-2.30-58.0.7.el8.i686.rpm
binutils-devel-2.30-58.0.7.el8.x86_64.rpm
binutils-2.30-58.0.7.el8.x86_64.rpm
aarch64:
binutils-devel-2.30-58.0.7.el8.aarch64.rpm
binutils-2.30-58.0.7.el8.aarch64.rpm
SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/binutils-2.30-58.0.7.el8.src.rpm
Description of changes:
[2.30-58.0.7]
- Provide PIC libctf*.a files and linker scripts to avoid linking
with the shared objects from binutils. This is to avoid adding a hard
architecture dependency between binutils-devel and binutils packages.
- Reviewed-by: Egeyar Bagcioglu
[2.30-58.0.6]
- Add support for CTF archives and automatic parent determination (like
objdump)
to readelf --ctf
- PR 25120
- Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi
[2.30-58.0.5]
- Replace the following patches ...
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-01-add-md_cons_worker.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-02-add-md_generic_table_relax_frag.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-03-align-branches-within-a-fixed-boundary.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-04-add-mbranches-within-32B-boundaries.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-05-add-tests-for-malign-branch-boundary-and-malign.patch
- ... with the following upstream versions:
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-01-add-md_generic_table_relax_frag.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-02-align-branches-within-a-fixed-boundary.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-03-add-mbranches-within-32B-boundaries.patch
binutils-2.33-i386-gas-04-add-tests-for-malign-branch-boundary-and-malign.patch
- Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock
[2.30-58.0.4]
- Add to OL8 Binutils the following CTF backport by Nick Alcock:
- CTF machinery, including libctf.so and libctf-nonbfd.so. The linker does
not yet deduplicate the CTF type section.
- Backport of fix for upstream bug 23919, required by above
[Orabug: 30102938] [Orabug: 30102941]
- Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi
