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glaucus

binutils

  • Does not allow autoreconf and does not have runstatedir
  • Depends on zstd
  • Do we need to depend on jansson with --enable-jansson, or is that for gdb only?
  • Alpine reverts 25882 for ARM and PowerPC
  • --disable-separate-code bloats every executable and shared library by at least 2 MB; musl-cross-make uses this for smaller binaries in some cases (while sacrificing a bit of security)
  • --enable-64-bit-bfd is needed to ensure 64-bit support even on hosts with narrower word sizes
  • Is libbfd even needed --disable-install-libbfd (same thing for libiberty, --disable-install-libiberty)?
  • --enable-pgo-build=lto requires dejagnu and the test suite?
  • Do we need make configure-host configure-target?
  • Should the target bpf-unknown-none be enabled?
  • Does --enable-default-compressed-debug-sections-algorithm=zstd contradict with --disable-compressed-debug-sections and enables compressed debug sections, or does it only set the default algorithm if the user decides to use compressed debug sections?
  • --with-build-sysroot is only relevant in cross
  • Do not symlink toolchain/usr/$TGT to gcc-ar/gcc-nm/gcc-ranlib as it will loop infinitely and thrash your system
  • bfd does not build with yash; only with dash and bash
  • gold has been deprecated
  • --enable-new-dtags allows the linker to use the “runpath” tag instead of the older rpath one
  • --without-msgpack: msgpack is not needed on glaucus (gentoo also disables this)
  • --disable-default-stack is an alias for --enable-default-execstack=no
  • --enable-shared enables the shared libraries of libbfd and libopcodes and makes tools like ar and as depend on them

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