[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] binutils: add support for binutils 2.29

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:15:54 +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:

> > All patches from binutils 2.28 are kept, except patch
> > 0906-microblaze-pr21180.patch, because it has been merged upstream as
> > of commit bd757ca7bf5886a4025ca02093fca1b8c5ce11a2. Other patches are
> > slightly adapted to differences that appeared in binutils 2.29.
> > 
> > The patches are now all Git formatted, so instead of having weird
> > sequence numbers, they have normal sequence numbers starting from 0001
> > and incrementing.
> > 
> > Since binutils 2.29 is now available as a .tar.xz tarball, we use this
> > format instead of .bz2 used for previous versions.  
> 
> I am testing some more qemu defconfigs with binutils 2.29.
> sh4/sparc worked fine. But xtensa fails to compile busybox:
> 
> /home/wbx/buildroot/output/host/lib/gcc/xtensa-buildroot-linux-uclibc/6.4.0/../../../../xtensa-buildroot-linux-uclibc/bin/ld:
> BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.29 assertion fail elf32-xtensa.c:3965
> 
> Adding Max to Cc.

Thanks!

Since we're not switching to 2.29 as the default, I think it's fine if
some architectures have a few issues with 2.29. The whole point of
adding new versions before making them the default is precisely to iron
out such issues.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com