binutils - Bugzilla ID 20159

[Paul Braman]

Moved to Ubuntu 16.04 from Ubuntu 14.04 and was doing some Test Driven Development where we began to override the "time" system call from glibc. Failed on Ubuntu 16.04 and I filed a report with the binutils Bugzilla.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20159

(Turns out it was not dynamic linking that was the problem but GNU ld itself at link-time.)

They have since developed a patch and I want to get this into the binutils 1.26 line that is maintained for 16.04 so we can continue to properly develop software on this distribution.

Thanks!

- Paul Braman

[Paul Braman (paul-braman+ubuntu)]

Bug was fixed in 2.26 and trunk of project (see Bugzilla report linked). Hoping this gets into Ubuntu 16.04 soon so I can stop ignoring the error and continue developing tests that rely on a fixed version.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

see the ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/ppa PPA for an update

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in yakkety

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Paul, or anyone else affected,

Accepted binutils into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Paul Braman (paul-braman+ubuntu)]

Updated with proposed binutils in 16.04 and now software behaves uniformly regardless of whether it was built on 14.04 or 16.04.

Package: binutils
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 13328
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package binutils - 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04

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binutils (2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU: LP: #1586673, backport to 16.04 LTS.
    - Supports new POWER9 instructions. LP: #1588475.
  * Disable N32 and MIPS r6 cross builds.

binutils (2.26.1-1ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build from upstream sources.
    - Don't build cross binutils packages for non-linux architectures.

binutils (2.26.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * binutils 2.26.1 release.

binutils (2.26-12ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build from upstream sources.
    - Don't build cross binutils packages for non-linux architectures.

binutils (2.26-12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update, taken from the 2.26 branch 20160624.
    - Fix PR ld/20254 (AVR), PR ld/20221 (AVR), PR ld/20244 (x86).
    - Support for three more new POWER9 instructions.
  * Cherry pick backports for AArch64 vulcan support (Dann Frazier).
    LP: #1594452.

binutils (2.26-11ubuntu2) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build from upstream sources.
    - Don't build cross binutils packages for non-linux architectures.

binutils (2.26-11) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update, taken from the 2.26 branch 20160610.
    - Fix PR ld/20159, reverting the change for PR ld/16467. LP: #1588123.
  * Use ldconfig triggers instead of calling ldconfig directly.

binutils (2.26-10ubuntu3) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Fix PR ld/20159, reverting the change for PR ld/16467.

binutils (2.26-10ubuntu2) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build from upstream sources.
    - Don't build cross binutils packages for non-linux architectures.

binutils (2.26-10) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update, taken from the 2.26 branch 20160601.
    - Fix PR ld/20117, PR ld/20030, PR ld/20093.
    - Support for a few more new POWER9 instructions.
  * Build for N32 and MIPS r6 (YunQiang Su). Closes: #807377.
  * Mark cross binutils as M-A: foreign (Helmut Grohne). Closes: #824424.
  * More reproducible build fixes (Chris Lamb). Closes: #824413.
  * Fix PR ld/19886, --as-needed regression, taken from the trunk.

binutils (2.26-9ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build from upstream sources.
    - Don't build cross binutils packages for non-linux architectures.
    - Fix PR ld/19886, --as-needed regression, taken from the trunk.

binutils (2.26-9) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update, taken from the 2.26 branch 20160512.
    - Fix PR ld/19878, PR ld/19827, PR gas/19909, PR ld/20006, PR gold/19047,
      PR gas/20047, PR 20060.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:14:03 +0200

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for binutils has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.