Call for testing: elftoolchain tools
Ed Maste
emaste at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 18 15:13:09 UTC 2014
We have a rather outdated version of binutils in the base system. As
part of a project to update our toolchain I've started working on
using some of the tools from the elftoolchain project. There is now a
build knob to enable the use of the following tools:
* addr2line
* elfcopy (strip)
* nm
* size
* strings
The knob (in /etc/src.conf) is:
WITH_ELFTOOLCHAIN_TOOLS=yes
The binutils version is still used for as, ld, objcopy, objdump and
readelf; future projects will handle these.
The option is being tested in ports exp-runs on amd64 and i386, and
has had basic sanity testing on arm64 and mips64.
I'm interested in test reports across a variety of hardware
architectures and use cases. If everything works as expected you
should see no difference -- the tools should be drop-in replacements.
-Ed
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