[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag stable_URL open_issue_binutils]] Here's what's to be done for maintaining GNU Binutils. As these tools primarily deal with low-level parts of the target architecture and the object file format (ELF ABI), which are essentially (at least meant to be) the same, there shouldn't be many differences comparing the binutils between the GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux ports, for example. There are a few, though, as explained below. [[!toc levels=2]] # [[General information|/binutils]] # [[Sources|source_repositories/binutils]] # Configuration Last reviewed up to the [[Git mirror's d2a61dc33b01c56f5153c1ddea7b1fb8f304f20d (2013-06-18) sources|source_repositories/binutils]]. * Globally * a.out (such as `ld/emulparams/i386linux.sh`, `ld/emultempl/linux.em`, etc.), COFF, PE image support and 64-bit support are not interesting. * In the testsuites, `.exp` and `.d` files very likely should not only care for `*-*-linux*`, but also `*-*-gnu*`. (If they need to be conditionalized like this at all.) * `bfd/` * `config.bfd` * `i[3-7]86-*-gnu*` Comparing to `i[3-7]86-*-linux-*`: * `i386linux_vec` -- a.out. * `i386pei_vec` -- PE. * 64 bit. * `configure.host` Souldn't need anything. x86 Linux neither. * `configure.in` Linux: * `COREFILE=trad-core.lo` with `TRAD_HEADER='"hosts/i386linux.h"'` We don't have any such core file support configured. TODO: should we? Where is this core file reading exactly used? GDB? * `i386linux_vec` -- a.out. * `i386pei_vec` -- PE. * `binutils/` * `configure.tgt` * `gas/` * `config/te-gnu.h` C.f. `te-linux.h`; search tree for `TE_LINUX` vs. `TE_GNU` usage. * `tc-i386.h` Sole `TE_LINUX` usage is for a.out. * `configure.tgt` * `ld/` * `configure.host` * `*-*-gnu*` TODO: resolve `crt0.o` vs. `crt1.o` issue. [[Testsuite failures|binutils#static]]. * `configure.tgt` * `i[3-7]86-*-gnu*` Compare to `i[3-7]86-*-linux-*`, but don't need a.out (`i386linux`) and 64 bit support. * `__ehdr_start symbol`, c84ed8d89d0b8bf5a2968d465f77ac24bcfc40c2 -- can this be helpful in the exec server, glibc, or elsewhere? Used in GDB (BFD) commit bdbd9758806ed855af89244870fdc52cf3ff09bc. Used in glibc commit 288f7d79fe2dcc8e62c539f57b25d7662a2cd5ff `Use __ehdr_start, if available, as fallback for AT_PHDR.`. * `Add HOSTING_SCRT0 for PIE test`, 49cc20aa5c416ea4307931cccf6353247368187d -- is for GNU/Linux only; but also seems unused. # Build Here's a log of a binutils build run; this is from our [[Git repository|source_repositories/binutils]]'s `tschwinge/Paul_Desmond` branch, commit d2a61dc33b01c56f5153c1ddea7b1fb8f304f20d (2013-06-18), run on kepler.SCHWINGE and coulomb.SCHWINGE. $ export LC_ALL=C $ ../Paul_Desmond/configure --prefix="$PWD".install --enable-gold --with-sysroot=/ SHELL=/bin/dash CC=gcc-4.8 CXX=g++-4.8 2>&1 | tee log_build [...] $ make 2>&1 | tee log_build_ [...] Different hosts may default to different shells and compiler versions; thus harmonized. Debian GCC (which is used in binutils' testsuite) likes to pass `--sysroot=/` to `ld`, so we need to configure binutils with support for sysroots. This takes up around 1100 MiB, and needs roughly 13 min on kepler.SCHWINGE and 53 min on coulomb.SCHWINGE. ## Analysis x86 GNU/Linux' and GNU/Hurd's configurations are slightly different, thus mask out most of the differences that are due to GNU/Linux supporting more core file formats, and more emulation vectors. $ toolchain/logs/process binutils build # Install $ make install 2>&1 | tee log_install [...] This takes up around 170 MiB, and needs roughly 1 min on kepler.SCHWINGE and 3 min on coulomb.SCHWINGE. ## Analysis $ toolchain/logs/process binutils install * `libtool: finish`: `ldconfig` is not run for the Hurd. # Testsuite $ make -k check 2>&1 | tee log_test [...] This needs roughly 5 min on kepler.SCHWINGE and 37 min on coulomb.SCHWINGE. ## Analysis $ toolchain/logs/process binutils test * `FAIL: static [...]` The testsuite isn't prepared for using `crt0.o` instead of `crt1.o` depending on whether a static or dynamic executable is created. Documented in `ld/configure.host`. Perhaps we should finally rewrite this messy code in glibc? Or, something similar to commit 49cc20aa5c416ea4307931cccf6353247368187d `Add HOSTING_SCRT0 for PIE test` can be used. Same issue for `FAIL: Common symbol override ifunc *` ones? * `FAIL: ld-elf/64ksec` On the idle grubber, this one takes a few minutes wall time to complete successfully ([[I/O system weakness|performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec]]), so assuming some system load variation, the testsuite's timeout may trigger. * `FAIL: ELF weak [...]` [[I|tschwinge]] suppose this is due to us having an override w.r.t. weak symbol handling in glibc, needed for our external [[/libpthread]]. TODO: document properly. * `FAIL: gas/i386/rept` (intermittently) Added in commit 06f1247c54126b9f1e6acb8ff8c7be35aec6f44c (2012-06-07) as part of the fix for [[!sourceware_PR 14201]], renamed in commit d654e24bbc2f601df4dc43b26049b0339528b93a (2012-06-07): WARNING: program timed out. FAIL: gas/i386/rept * ld IFUNC execution tests Missing [[IFUNC]] support on GNU/Hurd. Added in commit 82c5587db078581cfe94a4385ed99de1d1fa6657 (2012-09-19): FAIL: Common symbol override ifunc test 1a FAIL: Common symbol override ifunc test 1b * gold GNU/Linux vs. GNU/Hurd -FAIL: relro_test.sh +PASS: relro_test.sh -PASS: ver_matching_test.sh +FAIL: ver_matching_test.sh -PASS: script_test_3 +FAIL: script_test_3 -PASS: tls_phdrs_script_test +FAIL: tls_phdrs_script_test