Fedora 22 Update: binutils-2.25-8.fc22

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-10051
2015-06-16 09:52:19
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Name        : binutils
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 2.25
Release     : 8.fc22
URL         : http://sources.redhat.com/binutils
Summary     : A GNU collection of binary utilities
Description :
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for
creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU
assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the
GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for
copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying
information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for
the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed
information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes
of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings
from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for
converting addresses to file and line).

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Update Information:

Resolves building and using GOLD for AArch64
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun 10 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.25-8
- Make the AArch64 GOLD port use 64K pages.
- Resolves: BZ #1225156 and BZ #1215546
* Mon Apr 27 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.25-7
- Require the coreutils so that touch is available.
- Resolves: BZ #1215242
* Tue Apr 21 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.25-6
- Enable building GOLD for the AArch64.
- Resolves: BZ #1203057
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1215546 - AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(long long, 8) conftest linked with ld.gold crashes on aarch64
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215546
  [ 2 ] Bug #1195231 - ghc-7.8.4 build fails to complete on aarch64
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195231
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