Slackware 14.0slackware-14.0

Wed Sep 26 01:10:42 UTC 2012
Slackware 14.0 x86_64 stable is released!

We're perfectionists here at Slackware, so this release has been a long
time a-brewing.  But we think you'll agree that it was worth the wait.
Slackware 14.0 combines modern components, ease of use, and flexible
configuration... our "KISS" philosophy demands it.

The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
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Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.  The Slackware team, the
upstream developers, and (of course) the awesome Slackware user
community.

Have fun!  :-)

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-This is the beta release of binutils 2.21.51.0.6 for Linux, which is
-based on binutils 2011 0118 in CVS on sourceware.org plus various
-changes. It is purely for Linux.
-
-All relevant patches in patches have been applied to the source tree.
-You can take a look at patches/README to see what have been applied and
-in what order they have been applied.
-
-Starting from the 2.21.51.0.3 release, you must remove .ctors/.dtors
-section sentinels when building glibc or other C run-time libraries.
-Otherwise, you will run into:
-
-http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12343
-
-Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, BFD linker has the working LTO
-plugin support. It can be used with GCC 4.5 and above. For GCC 4.5, you
-need to configure GCC with --enable-gold to enable LTO plugin support.
-
-Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, binutils fully supports compressed
-debug sections.  However, compressed debug section isn't turned on by
-default in assembler. I am planning to turn it on for x86 assembler in
-the future release, which may lead to the Linux kernel bug messages like
-
-WARNING: lib/ts_kmp.o (.zdebug_aranges): unexpected non-allocatable section.
-
-But the resulting kernel works fine.
-
-Starting from the 2.20.51.0.4 release, no diffs against the previous
-release will be provided.
-
-You can enable both gold and bfd ld with --enable-gold=both.  Gold will
-be installed as ld.gold and bfd ld will be installed as ld.bfd.  By
-default, ld.bfd will be installed as ld.  You can use the configure
-option, --enable-gold=both/gold to choose gold as the default linker,
-ld.  IA-32 binary and X64_64 binary tar balls are configured with
---enable-gold=both/ld --enable-plugins --enable-threads.
-
-Starting from the 2.18.50.0.4 release, the x86 assembler no longer
-accepts
-
-	fnstsw %eax
-
-fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax and the upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.
-Please use
-
-	fnstsw %ax
-
-Starting from the 2.17.50.0.4 release, the default output section LMA
-(load memory address) has changed for allocatable sections from being
-equal to VMA (virtual memory address), to keeping the difference between
-LMA and VMA the same as the previous output section in the same region.
-
-For
-
-.data.init_task : { *(.data.init_task) }
-
-LMA of .data.init_task section is equal to its VMA with the old linker.
-With the new linker, it depends on the previous output section. You
-can use
-
-.data.init_task : AT (ADDR(.data.init_task)) { *(.data.init_task) }
-
-to ensure that LMA of .data.init_task section is always equal to its
-VMA. The linker script in the older 2.6 x86-64 kernel depends on the
-old behavior.  You can add AT (ADDR(section)) to force LMA of
-.data.init_task section equal to its VMA. It will work with both old
-and new linkers. The x86-64 kernel linker script in kernel 2.6.13 and
-above is OK.
-
-The new x86_64 assembler no longer accepts
-
-	monitor %eax,%ecx,%edx
-
-You should use
-
-	monitor %rax,%ecx,%edx
-
-or
-	monitor
-
-which works with both old and new x86_64 assemblers. They should
-generate the same opcode.
-
-The new i386/x86_64 assemblers no longer accept instructions for moving
-between a segment register and a 32bit memory location, i.e.,
-
-	movl (%eax),%ds
-	movl %ds,(%eax)
-
-To generate instructions for moving between a segment register and a
-16bit memory location without the 16bit operand size prefix, 0x66,
-
-	mov (%eax),%ds
-	mov %ds,(%eax)
-
-should be used. It will work with both new and old assemblers. The
-assembler starting from 2.16.90.0.1 will also support
-
-	movw (%eax),%ds
-	movw %ds,(%eax)
-
-without the 0x66 prefix. Patches for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels are
-available at
-
-http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch
-http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.6-seg-5.patch
-
-The ia64 assembler is now defaulted to tune for Itanium 2 processors.
-To build a kernel for Itanium 1 processors, you will need to add
-
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_ITANIUM),y)
-	CFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1
-	AFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1
-endif
-
-to arch/ia64/Makefile in your kernel source tree.
-
-Please report any bugs related to binutils 2.21.51.0.6 to
-hjl.tools@gmail.com
-
-and
-
-http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.5:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0118.
-2. Fix x32 (ILP32) support.  Renamed assembler option to --x32.  It
-can create working static and dynamic x32 executables.
-3. Add BMI and TBM new instruction support.
-4. Fix x86 disassembler to properly display sign-extended byte.
-5. Improve IFUNC linker support.  PRs 12366/12371.
-6. Fix readelf bug on archive. PR 12408.
-7. Fix a assembler when compressing empty debug sections.  PR 12409.
-8. Fix a warning symbol linker bug.  PR 12339.
-9. Fix a duplicated assert message linker bug.  PR 12380.
-10. Fix plugin linker build.  PR 12391.
-11. Fix a plugin linker crash.  PR 12364.
-12. Improve plugin linker.
-13. Improve gold.
-14. Improve arm support.
-15. Improve mips support.
-16. Improve rx support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0104.
-2. Add ILP32 support:
-
-http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ilp32/abi.pdf
-
-to Linux/x86-64.
-3. Prevent the Linux x86-64 kernel build failure and remove
-__ld_compatibility support.  PR 12356.
-4. Improve gold.
-5. Improve Windows support.
-6. Improve hppa support.
-7. Improve mips support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2010 1217.
-2. Fix the Linux relocatable kernel build.  PR 12327.
-3. Improve mips support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2010 1215.
-2. Add BFD linker support for placing input .ctors/.dtors sections in
-output .init_array/.fini_array section.  Add SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY.  The
-benefits are
-   a. Avoid output .ctors/.dtors section in executables and shared
-      libraries.
-   b. Allow mixing input .ctors/.dtors sections with input
-   .init_array/.fini_array sectiobs.  GCC PR 46770.
-3. Add BFD linker support for "ld -r" on mixed IR/non-IR objects. Add
-the new ELF section type SHT_GNU_OBJECT_ONLY (0x6ffffff8). See
-
-http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12291
-
-4. Update BFD linker to accept -flto and -flto-partition= for GCC LTO
-option compatibility.
-5. Fix BFD linker to avoid touching uncompressed section content when
-relocating DWARF debug sections for errror reporting.
-6. Mark .gnu.lto_* sections with SHF_EXCLUDE.
-7. Add --target option to ar.
-8. Improve gold.
-9. Improve AIX support.
-10. Improve Windows support.
-11. Improve mips support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2010 1206.
-2. Fix BFD and GOLD linker for compressed debug section support.
-3. Fix BFD linker plugin support.  PR ld/12246, ld/12247, ld/12248,
-ld/12277, ld/12288 and ld/12289.
-4. Update BFD linker to group .text.exit, text.startup and .text.hot
-sections.
-5. Fix linker for W_EH_PE_datarel handling.  PR ld/12253.
-6. Fix array access bug in readelf/elfedit.  PR binutils/11742 and
-binutils/12235.
-7. Support dumping GDB .gdb_index section.
-8. Install plugin-api.h.
-9. Improve gold.
-10. Improve Solaris support.
-11. Improve VMS support.
-12. Improve Windows support.
-13. Improve arm support.
-14. Improve bfin support.
-15. Improve mips support.
-16. Improve s390 support.
-17. Improve z80 support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.12:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2010 1110.
-2. Fix ld plugin support.  PRs lto/46291 and lto/46319.
-3. Fix x86 assembler to properly fold _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ in Intel
-syntax.  PR 12186.
-4. Update assembler to ensure that group signature symbols have the name
-of the group.
-5. Avoid unnecessary relaxation in assembler.  PR 12049.
-6. Update linker NOLOAD processing.
-7. Update linker not to include archive members when symbols therein have
-already been defined.  PR 12001.
-8. Change objdump to display compressed section names without 'z'.
-9. Improve gold.
-10. Improve Solaris support.
-11. Improve VMS support.
-12. Improve Windows support.
-13. Improve arm support.
-14. Improve cr16 support.
-15. Improve mips support.
-16. Improve ppc support.
-17. Improve tic6x support.
-
-The file list:
-
-1. binutils-2.21.51.0.6.tar.bz2. Source code.
-2. binutils-2.21.51.0.6.i686.tar.bz2. IA-32 binary tar ball for RedHat
-   EL 5.
-3. binutils-2.21.51.0.6.ia64.tar.bz2. IA-64 binary tar ball for RedHat
-   EL 5.
-4. binutils-2.21.51.0.6.x86_64.tar.bz2. X64_64 binary tar ball for RedHat
-   EL 5.
-
-The primary sites for the beta Linux binutils are:
-
-1. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/
-
-Thanks.
-
-
-H.J. Lu
-hjl.tools@gmail.com
-01/18/2011