release notes:
- https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2025-February/139195.html
In a change to our previous practice, in this release the
binutils-2.44.tar tarball does not contain the sources for the gold
linker. This is because the gold linker is now deprecated and will
eventually be removed unless volunteers step forward and offer to
continue development and maintenance.
The gold sources can be found in the binutils-with-gold-2.44.tar
tarballs. Going forward, odd numbered releases of the binutils (2.45,
2.47, etc) will just have the binutils.2.xx.tar tarballs, whilst even
numbered releases will have both the binutils-2.xx.tar and the
binutils-with-gold-2.xx.tar tarballs. Eventually this will stop and
gold will be dropped altogether.
binutils-2.34/missing: 81: makeinfo: not found
WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or
any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.
You might want to install the Texinfo package:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of
using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might
want to install GNU make:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
make[3]: *** [Makefile:474: binutils.info] Error 127
By default binutils 2.33 will automatically build and use it's
bundled zlib version - which isn't obvious from package.mk as
we don't explicitly build the zlib folder.
binutils 2.32 uses the zlib include from it's bundled version but
won't build it and try to link with libz.a from sysroot - which
will either fail (if zlib wasn't built before) or result in a
possible version mix (which isn't nice as well).
Explicitly using the target zlib - like most linux distributions
do - solves these issues and makes the build consistent.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Reichl <hias@horus.com>
linker output in case of using /usr/lib path:
/data/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0-devel/toolchain/lib/gcc/x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu/6.2.0/../../../../x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: library search path "/usr/lib" is unsafe for cross-compilation, ignore it
