[releng] Issue #7282: Rebase binutils to the new 2.30 release

[Nicholas Clifton]

nickc reported a new issue against the project: `releng` that you are following:
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Update the rawhide binutils to the just release FSF binutils 2.30 sources.

This new release brings in many big fixes and several new features including:   

  * Support for location views in DWARF debug line information.

  * Support for parsing and following any type of separate debug information
    link.
  
 Plus other,  more technical, enhancements.
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[Florian Weimer]

fweimer added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Is this intended for Fedora 28 or Fedora 29?
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[Nicholas Clifton]

nickc added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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*sigh* Fedora 29.  I missed the 28 deadline by several weeks. :-(

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[Neal Gompa]

ngompa added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@nickc Is it significantly different than what we have in 2.29.1 in a way that could break
things? If not, we haven't done the mass rebuild yet...
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[Nicholas Clifton]

nickc added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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>  @nickc Is it significantly different than what we have in 2.29.1 in a
> way that could break things?
>  
Yes. :-(

Well not significantly different, but new and untested enough that it
might cause problems.  

I would love to see it go into the about-to-happen mass rebuild, but
honestly, I think that it would be safer to wait for 28 to branch,
and then check the changes into the new rawhide.




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[David Abdurachmanov]

davidlt added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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I think, there was a similar discussion regarding GCC 8. See:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...

Just a few of quotes:
- Mass rebuild with a prerelease version of the compiler, like every year at
least in the past 10 years in Fedora.
- This is the cost of being "First". Fedora has long enjoyed a tight coupling
with the GCC upstream. It's a symbiosis: they use our mass-rebuild to help
identify any issues before GCC goes stable and in turn Fedora gets to have
the newest compiler features before anyone else.
- Realistically, since Fedora is the first real-world exercise of new GCC, if
we waited for the upstream stable release, it would be exactly as it is
now. Fedora would hit all the same issues and GCC would have to release
updates to fix them for us.

Also based on https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7249 binutils 2.30 was 
approved ("we will include this in the mass rebuild") for f28 mass rebuild 
3 weeks ago.

GCC 8.0.1 and glibc ~2.27 have already landed from what I have seen in 
git repositories and koji.

It feels strange not to have binutils 2.30.
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[Nicholas Clifton]

nickc added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Hi David,

>  It feels strange not to have binutils 2.30.
>  
Does this mean that I *can* commit the 2.30 update to the rawhide binutils ?

I submitted a change request for this:

    https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7282
    https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Changes/BINUTILS230

But I thought that I was too late to get the rebase in to Fedora 28.

Cheers
  Nick

PS,  I have the rebase all tested locally and ready to go.  I just 
need a green light to commit the update.

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[Neal Gompa]

ngompa added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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As long as you're not doing another "change compiler flags and break the
world" thing, I would hope it'd be fine...

(Note, not releng, my worth is worthless, etc. etc.)
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[Nicholas Clifton]

nickc added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Heh :-)  Well I am not *intentionally* planning on breaking anything, but it is a new
release of the binutils, and they are pretty fundamental to the whole process of compiling
and linking binaries.  So there is a *possibility* that something will break.   But then
that is one of the main purposes of the mass rebuild at this time , right ?  Collect
together the latest and greatest of all the packages and then make sure that they all
build whilst there is still time to fix up any snafus.
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[Neal Gompa]

ngompa added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Yeah, pretty much. But things like the flag switch with 2.29.1 was not fun to deal with.
:(
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[Igor Gnatenko]

ignatenkobrain added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@nickc, pretty sure FESCo can make an exception. Just ask them.
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[Florian Weimer]

fweimer added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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We will stick with 2.29.1 for Fedora 28.  Too many moving parts already.
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[Kellin]

kellin added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Releng acknowledges this change and it will be included in the mass rebuild.
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[Mohan Boddu]

The status of the issue: `Rebase binutils to the new 2.30 release` of project: `releng`
has been updated to: Closed as Fixed by mohanboddu.

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[Mohan Boddu]

mohanboddu added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Closing this in favor of https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7475
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