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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2017-06-09 15:24:17 +1000
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2017-06-30 09:03:05 +0900
commit799c43415442414b1032580c47684cb709dfed6d (patch)
tree3ac5e1e130227865eb4c83c22254707de2a81859 /Documentation/process
parent827880ec260ba048f95fe646b96a205c394fa0f0 (diff)
kbuild: thin archives make default for all archs
Make thin archives build the default, but keep the config option to allow exemptions if any breakage can't be quickly solved. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index e25d63f8c0da..68be1bbbe631 100644
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.
====================== =============== ========================================
GNU C 3.2 gcc --version
GNU make 3.81 make --version
-binutils 2.12 ld -v
+binutils 2.20 ld -v
util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version
module-init-tools 0.9.10 depmod -V
e2fsprogs 1.41.4 e2fsck -V
@@ -75,10 +75,9 @@ You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel.
Binutils
--------
-Linux on IA-32 has recently switched from using ``as86`` to using ``gas`` for
-assembling the 16-bit boot code, removing the need for ``as86`` to compile
-your kernel. This change does, however, mean that you need a recent
-release of binutils.
+The build system has, as of 4.13, switched to using thin archives (`ar T`)
+rather than incremental linking (`ld -r`) for built-in.o intermediate steps.
+This requires binutils 2.20 or newer.
Perl
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