Sophie

• Search
• Distribution
• Explorer
• Source & Patches
• Chat
• Help
• About

distrib > Scientific%20Linux > 5x > x86_64 > media > main-src > by-pkgid > f9095ab7eaa5520b9939f2327d28f620 > changelog

binutils-2.17.50.0.6-9.el5.src.rpm

• Info
• Deps
• Files
• Scripts
• ChangeLog
• Location
• Others versions
• Analyse

• Wed Oct 29 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-9.el5

  - Fix complains on .gnu.linkonce.r relocations to their discarded
  .gnu.linkonce.t counterparts (#463934).

• Fri Aug 29 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-8.el5

  - Fix linking ppc64 libraries with large TOC section (Alan Modra, #460622).

• Fri Aug 22 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-7.el5

  - Fix parsing of the `strings' command line argument `-' (Chu Li,
  Nick Clifton, H.J. Lu, #435078).
  - Rebuild libbfd.a with -fPIC for inclusion into shared libraries (#430856).
  - libbfd.a symbols visibility is now hidden (suggested by Jakub Jelinek).
  - Fix PGI cross-files DW_FORM_ref_addr relocations
  (fix by Jakub Jelinek, #438793).
  - Restore the RHEL-5.0 debug symbols linking performance (Jakub Jelinek,
  H.J. Lu, #364141).

• Mon Dec 31 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-6.el5

  - full power6 support (Alan Modra, Peter Bergner, Ben Elliston,
  Anton Blanchard, #253108)
  - demangle ppc64 dot symbols in gprof (Jan Kratochvil, #242057)
  - SSE5 support in gas and objdump (Michael Meissner, Dwarakanath Rajagopal,
  Tony Linthicum, H.J.Lu, #426906)

• Fri May 25 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-5.el5

  - fix ld --unique with new DWARF3 sections .debug_ranges and .debug_pubtypes
  (Alan Modra, #241252)
  - fix segfault in ppc64 version script handling (Andreas Schwab)

• Wed May 23 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-4.el5

  - 10x linking speedup on large C++ apps (#223181)
  - fix tekhex reader
  - SSE4 support in gas and objdump (H.J.Lu, #223120)
  - compile binutils with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (#215514)
  - fix ld --emit-relocs on ppc64 (Alan Modra, #235221)
  - fix ppc32 ld segfault with -msecure-plt (Alan Modra, BZ#4267)

• Thu Nov 9 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-2.el5

  - fix popcnt instruction assembly and disassembly on amd64 (#214767)

• Wed Oct 25 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-1.el5

  - update to 2.17.50.0.6
  - fix for section relative linker script defined symbols in
  empty sections (#212032, BZ#3267)
  - fix handling of DW_CFA_set_loc in .eh_frame optimizations
  - fix R_PPC_{PLT,GOT{,_TLSGD,_TLSLD,_TPREL,_DTPREL}}16_HA relocation
  handling with weak undefined symbols (Alan Modra, #211094)
  - fix --cref (#212099)
  - fix --emit-relocs on ppc64 (#211991)

• Tue Sep 12 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-6

  - fix multilib conflict in /usr/include/bfd.h

• Tue Sep 12 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-5

  - fix efi-app-ia64 magic number (#206002, BZ#3171)

• Tue Sep 5 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-4

  - link libopcodes*.so against libbfd*.so (#202327)
  - split *.a and header files into binutils-devel

• Fri Aug 18 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-3

  - on ppc and ppc64 increase default -z commonpagesize to 64K (#203001)

• Fri Jul 28 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-2

  - do not infer x86 arch implicitly based on instruction in the input
  (#200330)

• Mon Jul 17 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-1

  - update to 2.17.50.0.3

• Fri Jul 14 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-8

  - add support for new AMDFAM10 instructions (#198281, IT#97662)
  - add -march=/-mtune= gas support on x86/x86-64
  - x86/x86-64 nop insn improvements
  - fix DT_GNU_HASH shift count value computation

• Tue Jul 11 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-7

  - add DT_GNU_HASH support (--hash-style=gnu and --hash-style=both
  ld options)

• Thu Jun 29 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-4

  - fix i?86 TLS GD->IE transition in executables (#196157, BZ#2513)

• Mon Jun 19 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-3

  - fix two places in ld that misbehaved with MALLOC_PERTURB_=N
  - fix .tls_common handling in relocatable linking

• Mon Jun 5 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-2

  - fix --as-needed (Alan Modra, #193689, BZ#2721)

• Thu Jun 1 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-1

  - update to 2.17.50.0.2
  - update from CVS to 20060601
  - speed up the ELF linker by caching the result of kept section check
  (H.J. Lu)

• Tue May 9 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.1-1

  - update to 2.17.50.0.1

• Fri Mar 31 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-6

  - fix ld error message formatting, so that collect2 parser can
  parse it again for g++ -frepo (#187142)

• Thu Mar 9 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-4

  - fix relaxation of TLS GD to LE on PPC (#184590)

• Fri Mar 3 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-3

  - support DW_CFA_val_{offset,offset_sf,expression} in readelf/objdump

• Tue Feb 28 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-2

  - add MNI support on i?86/x86_64 (#183080)
  - support S signal frame augmentation flag in .eh_frame,
  add .cfi_signal_frame support (#175951, PR other/26208, BZ#300)

• Tue Feb 14 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-1

  - update to 2.16.91.0.6
  - fix ppc64 --gc-sections
  - disassembler fixes for x86_64 cr/debug regs
  - fix linker search order for DT_NEEDED libs

• Mon Jan 2 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.5-1

  - update to 2.16.91.0.5
  - don't error about .toc1 references to discarded sectiosn on ppc64
  (#175944)

• Wed Dec 14 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.3-2

  - put .gnu.linkonce.d.rel.ro.* sections into relro region

• Fri Dec 9 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Fri Nov 11 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.3-1

  - update to 2.16.91.0.3
  - add .weakref support (Alexandre Oliva, #115157, #165728)

• Thu Aug 18 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.2-4

  - install-info also configure.info
  - update standards.texi from gnulib (#165530)

• Tue Aug 16 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.2-3

  - update to 20050816 CVS
  - better fix for ld-cdtest
  - fix symbol version script parsing

• Fri Jul 29 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.2-2

  - don't complain about relocs to discarded sections in ppc32
  .got2 sections (Alan Modra, PR target/17828)

• Fri Jul 22 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.2-1

  - update to 2.16.91.0.2

• Thu Jul 21 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.1-3

  - fix buffer overflow in readelf ia64 unwind printing code
  - use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in gas diagnostics (Tavis Ormandy)
  - fix ld-cdtest when CFLAGS contains -fexceptions

• Wed Jul 20 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.1-2

  - update to 20050720 CVS

• Mon Jul 11 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.1-1

  - update to 2.16.91.0.1 plus 20050708 CVS

• Wed Jun 15 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.90.0.3-1

  - update to 2.16.90.0.3
  - update to 20050615 CVS
  - ppc32 secure PLT support (Alan Modra)
  - further bfd/readelf robustification

• Sat Jun 11 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2.2-4

  - further bfd robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)

• Fri Jun 10 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2.2-3

  - further objdump and readelf robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)

• Wed May 25 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2.2-2

  - bfd and readelf robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)

• Tue Mar 29 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2.2-1

  - update to 2.15.94.0.2.2
  - speed up walk_wild_section (Robert O'Callahan)

• Mon Mar 7 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2-4

  - rebuilt with GCC 4

• Mon Feb 28 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2-3

  - fix buffer overflows in readelf (#149506)
  - move c++filt to binutils from gcc-c++, conflict with gcc-c++ < 4.0 (#86333)

• Thu Feb 10 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2-1

  - update to 2.15.94.0.2
  - fix .note.GNU-stack/PT_GNU_STACK computation in linker on ppc64 (#147296)
  - fix stripping of binaries/libraries that have empty sections right before
  .dynamic section (with the same starting address; #144038)
  - handle AS_NEEDED (...) in linker script INPUT/GROUP

• Tue Dec 14 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-11

  - fix a longstanding -z relro bug

• Mon Dec 13 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-10

  - avoid unnecessary gap with -z relro showing on i686 libc.so
  - ppc64 --emit-relocs fix (Alan Modra)
  - don't crash if STT_SECTION symbol has incorrect st_shndx (e.g. SHN_ABS,
  as created by nasm; #142181)
  - don't try to make absptr LSDAs relative if they don't have relocations
  against them (Alan Modra, #141162)

• Wed Oct 27 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-5.EL4

  - fix ar xo (#104344)

• Wed Oct 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-5

  - fix --just-symbols on ppc64 (Alan Modra, #135498)

• Fri Oct 15 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-4

  - fix code detecting matching linkonce and single member comdat
  group sections (#133078)

• Mon Oct 11 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-3

  - revert Sep 09 change to make ppc L second argument e.g. for tlbie
  non-optional
  - fix stripping of prelinked binaries and libraries (#133734)
  - allow strings(1) on 32-bit arches to be used again with > 2GB
  files (#133555)

• Mon Oct 4 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-2

  - update to 2.15.92.0.2
  - change ld's ld.so.conf parser to match ldconfig's (#129340)

• Mon Sep 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-9

  - avoid almost 1MB (sparse) gaps in the middle of -z relro
  libraries on x86-64 (Andreas Schwab)
  - fix -z relro to make sure end of PT_GNU_RELRO segment is always
  COMMONPAGESIZE aligned

• Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-8

  - fix linker segfaults on input objects with SHF_LINK_ORDER with
  incorrect sh_link (H.J.Lu, Nick Clifton, #130198, BZ #290)

• Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-7

  - resolve all undefined ppc64 .* syms to the function bodies through
  .opd, not just those used in brach instructions (Alan Modra)

• Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-6

  - fix ppc64 ld --dotsyms (Alan Modra)

• Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-5

  - various ppc64 make check fixes when using non-dot-syms gcc (Alan Modra)
  - fix --gc-sections
  - on ia64 create empty .gnu.linkonce.ia64unw*.* sections for
  .gnu.linkonce.t.* function doesn't need unwind info

• Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-4

  - kill ppc64 dot symbols (Alan Modra)
  - objdump -d support for objects without dot symbols
  - support for overlapping ppc64 .opd entries

• Mon Aug 9 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-3

  - fix a newly introduced linker crash on x86-64

• Sun Aug 8 2004 Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-2

  - BuildRequire bison and macroise buildroot - from Steve Grubb

• Fri Jul 30 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-1

  - update to 2.15.91.0.2
  - BuildRequire flex (#117763)

• Wed May 19 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-7

  - use lib64 instead of lib directories on ia64 if %{_lib} is
  set to lib64 by rpm

• Sat May 15 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-6

  - fix a bug introduced in the ++/-- rejection patch
  from 2.15.90.0.3 (Alan Modra)

• Tue May 4 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-5

  - fix s390{,x} .{,b,p2}align handling
  - ppc/ppc64 testsuite fix

• Mon May 3 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-4

  - -z relro ppc/ppc64/ia64 fixes
  - change x86-64 .plt symbol st_size handling to match ia32
  - prettify objdump -d output

• Tue Apr 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-3

  - several SPARC fixes

• Sun Apr 18 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-2

  - yet another fix for .tbss handling

• Fri Apr 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-1

  - update to 2.15.90.0.3

• Fri Mar 26 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.1.1-2

  - update to 20040326 CVS
  - fix ppc64 weak .opd symbol handling (Alan Modra, #119086)
  - fix .tbss handling bug introduced

• Fri Mar 26 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.1.1-1

  - update to 2.15.90.0.1.1

• Sat Feb 21 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-8

  - with -z now without --enable-new-dtags create DT_BIND_NOW
  dynamic entry in addition to DT_FLAGS_1 with DF_1_NOW bit set

• Fri Feb 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-7

  - fix -pie on ppc32

• Fri Feb 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-6

  - clear .plt sh_entsize on sparc32
  - put whole .got into relro area with -z now -z relro

• Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Thu Jan 22 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-4

  - fix -pie on IA64

• Mon Jan 19 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-3

  - fix testcases on s390 and s390x

• Fri Jan 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-2

  - fix testcases on AMD64
  - fix .got's sh_entsize on IA32/AMD64
  - set COMMONPAGESIZE on s390/s390x
  - set COMMONPAGESIZE on ppc32 (Alan Modra)

• Fri Jan 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-1

  - update to 2.14.90.0.8

• Tue Jan 13 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.7-4

  - fix -z relro on 64-bit arches

• Mon Jan 12 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.7-3

  - fix some bugs in -z relro support

• Fri Jan 9 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.7-2

  - -z relro support, reordering of RW sections

• Fri Jan 9 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.7-1

  - update to 2.14.90.0.7

• Mon Nov 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.6-4

  - fix assembly parsing of foo=(.-bar)/4 (Alan Modra)
  - fix IA-64 assembly parsing of (p7) hint @pause

• Tue Sep 30 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.6-3

  - don't abort on some linker warnings/errors on IA-64

• Sat Sep 20 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.6-2

  - fix up merge2.s to use .p2align instead of .align

• Sat Sep 20 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.6-1

  - update to 2.14.90.0.6
  - speed up string merging (Lars Knoll, Michael Matz, Alan Modra)
  - speed up IA-64 local symbol handling during linking

• Fri Sep 5 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-7

  - avoid ld -s segfaults introduced in 2.14.90.0.5-5 (Dmitry V. Levin,

• Fri Aug 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-6

  - build old demangler into libiberty.a (#102268)
  - SPARC .cfi* support

• Tue Aug 5 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-5

  - fix orphan section placement

• Tue Jul 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-4

  - fix ppc64 elfvsb linker tests
  - some more 64-bit cleanliness fixes, give ppc64 fdesc symbols
  type and size (Alan Modra)

• Tue Jul 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-3

  - fix 64-bit unclean code in ppc-opc.c

• Mon Jul 28 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-2

  - fix 64-bit unclean code in tc-ppc.c

• Mon Jul 28 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-1

  - update to 2.14.90.0.5
  - fix ld -r on ppc64 (Alan Modra)

• Fri Jul 18 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-23

  - rebuilt

• Thu Jul 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-22

  - fix elfNN_ia64_dynamic_symbol_p (Richard Henderson, #86661)
  - don't access memory beyond what was allocated in readelf
  (Richard Henderson)

• Thu Jul 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-21

  - add .cfi_* support on ppc{,64} and s390{,x}

• Tue Jul 8 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-20

  - remove lib{bfd,opcodes}.la (#98190)

• Mon Jul 7 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-19

  - fix -pie support on amd64, s390, s390x and ppc64
  - issue relocation overflow errors for s390/s390x -fpic code when
  accessing .got slots above 4096 bytes from .got start

• Thu Jul 3 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-18

  - rebuilt

• Thu Jul 3 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-17

  - fix ia64 -pie support
  - require no undefined non-weak symbols in PIEs like required for normal
  binaries

• Wed Jul 2 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-16

  - fix readelf -d on IA-64
  - build libiberty.a with -fPIC, so that it can be lined into shared
  libraries

• Wed Jun 25 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-15

  - rebuilt

• Wed Jun 25 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-14

  - added support for Intel Prescott instructions
  - fix hint@pause for ia64
  - add workaround for LTP sillyness (#97934)

• Wed Jun 18 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-13

  - update CFI stuff to 2003-06-18
  - make sure .eh_frame is aligned to 8 bytes on 64-bit arches,
  remove padding within one .eh_frame section

• Tue Jun 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-12

  - rebuilt

• Tue Jun 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-11

  - one more fix for the same patch

• Tue Jun 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-10

  - fix previous patch

• Mon Jun 16 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-9

  - ensure R_PPC64_{RELATIVE,ADDR64} have *r_offset == r_addend
  and the other relocs have *r_offset == 0

• Tue Jun 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-8

  - remove some unnecessary provides in ppc64 linker script
  which were causing e.g. empty .ctors/.dtors section creation

• Fri Jun 6 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-7

  - some CFI updates/fixes
  - don't create dynamic relocations against symbols defined in PIE
  exported from its .dynsym

• Wed Jun 4 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-6

  - update gas to 20030604
  - PT_GNU_STACK support

• Mon Jun 2 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-5

  - buildrequire gettext (#91838)

• Sat May 31 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-4

  - fix shared libraries with >= 8192 .plt slots on ppc32

• Thu May 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-3

  - rebuilt

• Thu May 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-2

  - rename ld --dynamic option to --pic-executable or --pie
  - fix ld --help output
  - document --pie/--pic-executable in ld.info and ld.1

• Wed May 28 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-1

  - update to 2.14.90.0.4-1
  - gas CFI updates (Richard Henderson)
  - dynamic executables (Ulrich Drepper)

• Tue May 20 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.2-2

  - fix ELF visibility handling
  - tidy plt entries on IA-32, ppc and ppc64

• Mon May 19 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.2-1

  - update to 2.14.90.0.2-1

• Tue May 13 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-8

  - fix bfd_elf_hash on 64-bit arches (Andrew Haley)

• Wed Apr 30 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-7

  - rebuilt

• Mon Apr 14 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-6

  - optimize DW_CFA_advance_loc4 in gas even if there is 'z' augmentation
  with size 0 in FDE

• Fri Apr 11 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-5

  - fix SPARC build

• Thu Apr 3 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-4

  - fix ppc32 plt reference counting
  - don't include /usr/lib/debug in the non-debuginfo package
  (#87729)

• Mon Mar 31 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-3

  - make elf64ppc target native extra on ppc and elf32ppc native extra
  on ppc64.

• Fri Mar 28 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-2

  - fix TLS on IA-64 with ld relaxation

• Sat Mar 22 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-1

  - update to 2.13.90.0.20

• Mon Feb 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-9

  - rebuilt

• Mon Feb 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-8

  - don't strip binaries in %install, so that there is non-empty
  debuginfo

• Mon Feb 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-7

  - don't optimize .eh_frame during ld -r

• Thu Feb 13 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-6

  - don't clear elf_link_hash_flags in the .symver patch
  - only use TC_FORCE_RELOCATION in s390's TC_FORCE_RELOCATION_SUB_SAME
  (Alan Modra)

• Mon Feb 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-5

  - fix the previous .symver change
  - remove libbfd.so and libopcodes.so symlinks, so that other packages
  link statically, not dynamically against libbfd and libopcodes
  whose ABI is everything but stable

• Mon Feb 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-4

  - do .symver x, x@FOO handling earlier
  - support .file and .loc on s390*

• Mon Feb 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-3

  - handle .symver x, x@FOO in ld such that relocs against x become
  dynamic relocations against x@FOO (#83325)
  - two PPC64 TLS patches (Alan Modra)

• Sun Feb 9 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-2

  - fix SEARCH_DIR on x86_64/s390x
  - fix Alpha --relax
  - create DT_RELA{,SZ,ENT} on s390 even if there is just .rela.plt
  and no .rela.dyn section
  - support IA-32 on IA-64 (#83752)
  - .eh_frame_hdr fix (Andreas Schwab)

• Thu Feb 6 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-1

  - update to 2.13.90.0.18 + 20030121->20030206 CVS diff

• Tue Feb 4 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-8

  - alpha TLS fixes
  - use .debug_line directory table to make the section tiny bit smaller
  - libtool fix from Jens Petersen

• Sun Feb 2 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-7

  - sparc32 TLS

• Fri Jan 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-6

  - s390{,x} TLS and two other mainframe patches

• Fri Jan 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-5

  - fix IA-64 TLS IE in shared libs
  - .{preinit,init,fini}_array compat hack from Alexandre Oliva

• Thu Jan 16 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-4

  - IA-64 TLS fixes
  - fix .plt sh_entsize on Alpha
  - build with %_smp_mflags

• Sat Nov 30 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-3

  - fix strip on TLS binaries and libraries

• Fri Nov 29 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-2

  - fix IA-64 ld bootstrap

• Thu Nov 28 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-1

  - update to 2.13.90.0.16
  - STT_TLS SHN_UNDEF fix

• Wed Nov 27 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.10-4

  - pad .rodata.cstNN sections at the end if they aren't sized to multiple
  of sh_entsize
  - temporary patch to make .eh_frame and .gcc_except_table sections
  readonly if possible (should be removed when AUTO_PLACE is implemented)
  - fix .PPC.EMB.apuinfo section flags

• Wed Oct 23 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.10-3

  - fix names and content of alpha non-alloced .rela.* sections (#76583)
  - delete unpackaged files from the buildroot

• Tue Oct 15 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.10-2

  - enable s390x resp. s390 emulation in linker too

• Mon Oct 14 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.10-1

  - update to 2.13.90.0.10
  - add a bi-arch patch for sparc/s390/x86_64
  - add --enable-64-bit-bfd on sparc, s390 and ppc

• Thu Oct 10 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.4-3

  - fix combreloc testcase

• Thu Oct 10 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.4-2

  - fix orphan .rel and .rela section placement with -z combreloc (Alan Modra)
  - skip incompatible linker scripts when searching for libraries

• Tue Oct 1 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.4-1

  - update to 2.13.90.0.4
  - x86-64 TLS support
  - some IA-32 TLS fixes
  - some backported patches from trunk
  - include opcodes, ld, gas and bfd l10n too

• Thu Sep 19 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.2-3

  - allow addends for IA-32 TLS @tpoff, @ntpoff and @dtpoff
  - clear memory at *r_offset of dynamic relocs on PPC
  - avoid ld crash if accessing non-local symbols through LE relocs
  - new IA-32 TLS relocs, bugfixes and testcases
  - use brl insn on IA-64 (Richard Henderson)
  - fix R_IA64_PCREL21{M,F} handling (Richard Henderson)
  - build in separate builddir, so that gasp tests don't fail
  - include localization

• Thu Aug 8 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.2-2

  - fix R_386_TPOFF32 addends (#70824)

• Sat Aug 3 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.2-1

  - update to 2.13.90.0.2
  - fix ld TLS assertion failure (#70084)
  - fix readelf --debug-dump= handling to match man page and --help
  (#68997)
  - fix _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE gas handling (#70241)

• Wed Jul 24 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.12.90.0.15-1

  - update to 2.12.90.0.15
  - TLS .tbss fix
  - don't use rpm %configure macro, it is broken too often (#69366)

• Thu May 30 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.12.90.0.9-1

  - update to 2.12.90.0.9
  - TLS support
  - remove gasp.info from %post/%preun (#65400)

• Mon Apr 29 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.12.90.0.7-1

  - update to 2.12.90.0.7
  - run make check

• Mon Apr 29 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-12

  - fix .hidden handling on SPARC (Richard Henderson)
  - don't crash when linking -shared non-pic code with SHF_MERGE
  - fix .eh_frame_hdr for DW_EH_PE_aligned
  - correctly adjust DW_EH_PE_pcrel encoded personalities in CIEs

• Fri Apr 5 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-11

  - don't emit dynamic R_SPARC_DISP* relocs against STV_HIDDEN symbols
  into shared libraries

• Thu Mar 21 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-10

  - don't merge IA-64 unwind info sections together during ld -r

• Mon Mar 11 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-9

  - fix DATA_SEGMENT_ALIGN on ia64/alpha/sparc/sparc64

• Fri Mar 8 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-8

  - don't crash on SHN_UNDEF local dynsyms (Andrew MacLeod)

• Thu Mar 7 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-7

  - fix bfd configury bug (Alan Modra)

• Tue Mar 5 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-6

  - don't copy visibility when equating symbols
  - fix alpha .text/.data with .previous directive bug

• Tue Mar 5 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-5

  - fix SHF_MERGE crash with --gc-sections (#60369)
  - C++ symbol versioning patch

• Fri Feb 22 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-4

  - add DW_EH_PE_absptr -> DW_EH_PE_pcrel optimization for shared libs,
  if DW_EH_PE_absptr cannot be converted that way, don't build the
  .eh_frame_hdr search table

• Fri Feb 15 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-3

  - fix ld -N broken by last patch

• Tue Feb 12 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-2

  - trade one saved runtime page for data segment (=almost always not shared)
  for up to one page of disk space where possible

• Fri Feb 8 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-1

  - update to 2.11.93.0.2
  - use %{ix86} instead of i386 for -z combreloc default (#59086)

• Thu Jan 31 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-10

  - don't create SHN_UNDEF STB_WEAK symbols unless there are any relocations
  against them

• Wed Jan 30 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-9.1

  - rebuild (fix ia64 miscompilation)

• Wed Jan 9 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - automated rebuild

• Fri Dec 28 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-8

  - two further .eh_frame patch fixes

• Wed Dec 19 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-7

  - as ld is currently not able to shrink input sections to zero size
  during discard_info, build a fake minimal CIE in that case
  - update elf-strtab patch to what was commited

• Mon Dec 17 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-6

  - one more .eh_frame patch fix
  - fix alpha .eh_frame handling
  - optimize elf-strtab finalize

• Sat Dec 15 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-5

  - yet another fix for the .eh_frame patch

• Fri Dec 14 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-4

  - Alan Modra's patch to avoid crash if there is no dynobj

• Thu Dec 13 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-3

  - H.J.'s patch to avoid crash if input files are not ELF
  - don't crash if a SHF_MERGE for some reason could not be merged
  - fix objcopy/strip to preserve SHF_MERGE sh_entsize
  - optimize .eh_frame sections, add PT_GNU_EH_FRAME support
  - support anonymous version tags in version script

• Tue Nov 27 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-2

  - fix IA-64 SHF_MERGE handling

• Tue Nov 27 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-1

  - update to 2.11.92.0.12
  - optimize .dynstr and .shstrtab sections (#55524)
  - fix ld.1 glitch (#55459)
  - turn relocs against SHF_MERGE local symbols with zero addend
  into STT_SECTION + addend
  - remove man pages for programs not included (nlmconv, windres, dlltool;
  - add BuildRequires for texinfo

• Thu Oct 25 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.7-2

  - duh, fix strings on bfd objects (#55084)

• Sat Oct 20 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.7-1

  - update to 2.11.92.0.7
  - remove .rel{,a}.dyn from output if it is empty

• Thu Oct 11 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.5-2

  - fix strings patch
  - use getc_unlocked in strings to speed it up by 50% on large files

• Wed Oct 10 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.5-1

  - update to 2.11.92.0.5
  - binutils localization (#45148)
  - fix typo in REPORT_BUGS_TO (#54325)
  - support files bigger than 2GB in strings (#54406)

• Wed Sep 26 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-12

  - on IA-64, don't mix R_IA64_IPLTLSB relocs with non-PLT relocs in
  .rela.dyn section.

• Tue Sep 25 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-11

  - add iplt support for IA-64 (Richard Henderson)
  - switch to new section flags for SHF_MERGE and SHF_STRINGS, put
  in compatibility code
  - "s" section flag for small data sections on IA-64 and Alpha
  (Richard Henderson)
  - fix sparc64 .plt[32768+] handling
  - don't emit .rela.stab on sparc

• Mon Sep 10 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-10

  - fix SHF_MERGE on Sparc

• Fri Aug 31 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-9

  - on Alpha, copy *r_offset to R_ALPHA_RELATIVE's r_addend

• Thu Aug 30 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-8

  - on IA-64, put crtend{,S}.o's .IA_64.unwind section last in
  .IA_64.unwind output section (for compatibility with 7.1 eh)

• Fri Aug 24 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-7

  - put RELATIVE relocs first, not last
  - enable -z combreloc by default on IA-{32,64}, Alpha, Sparc*

• Thu Aug 23 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-6

  - support for -z combreloc
  - remove .dynamic patch, -z combreloc patch does this better
  - set STT_FUNC default symbol sizes in .endp directive on IA-64

• Mon Jul 16 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-5

  - fix last patch (H.J.Lu)

• Fri Jul 13 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-4

  - fix placing of orphan sections

• Sat Jun 23 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - fix SHF_MERGE support on Alpha

• Fri Jun 8 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.11.90.0.8
  - some SHF_MERGE suport fixes
  - don't build with tooldir /usrusr instead of /usr (#40937)
  - reserve few .dynamic entries for prelinking

• Mon Apr 16 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.11.90.0.5
  - SHF_MERGE support

• Tue Apr 3 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.11.90.0.4
  - fix uleb128 support, so that CVS gcc bootstraps
  - some ia64 fixes

• Mon Mar 19 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - add -Bgroup support from Ulrich Drepper

• Fri Mar 9 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - hack - add elf_i386_glibc21 emulation

• Fri Feb 16 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.10.91.0.2

• Fri Feb 9 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.10.1.0.7
  - remove ExcludeArch ia64
  - back out the -oformat, -omagic and -output change for now

• Fri Dec 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - Prereq /sbin/install-info

• Tue Nov 21 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.10.1.0.2

• Tue Nov 21 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - add one more alpha patch

• Wed Nov 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - fix alpha visibility as problem
  - add support for Ultra-III

• Fri Sep 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - and one more alpha patch

• Fri Sep 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - two sparc patches

• Mon Jul 24 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.10.0.18

• Mon Jul 10 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.10.0.12

• Mon Jun 26 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.10.0.9

• Thu Jun 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - fix ld -r

• Mon Jun 5 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

  - 2.9.5.0.46
  - use _mandir/_infodir/_lib

• Mon May 8 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 2.9.5.0.41

• Wed Apr 12 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 2.9.5.0.34

• Wed Mar 22 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 2.9.5.0.31

• Fri Feb 4 2000 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - man pages are compressed
  - apply kingdon's patch from #5031

• Wed Jan 19 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - Permit package to be built with a prefix other than /usr.

• Thu Jan 13 2000 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - add pacth from hjl to fix the versioning problems in ld

• Tue Jan 11 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - Add sparc patches from Jakub Jelinek
  - Add URL:

• Tue Dec 14 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 2.9.5.0.22

• Wed Nov 24 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 2.9.5.0.19

• Sun Oct 24 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 2.9.5.0.16

• Mon Sep 6 1999 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>

  - make shared non-pic libraries work on sparc with glibc 2.1.

• Fri Aug 27 1999 Jim Kingdon

  - No source/spec changes, just rebuilding with egcs-1.1.2-18 because
  the older egcs was miscompling gprof.

• Mon Apr 26 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - back out very *stupid* sparc patch done by HJLu. People, keep out of
  things you don't understand.
  - add alpha relax patch from rth

• Mon Apr 5 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - version 2.9.1.0.23
  - patch to make texinfo documentation compile
  - auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 2)

• Tue Feb 23 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.9.1.0.21
  - merged with UltraPenguin

• Mon Jan 4 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - added ARM patch from philb
  - version 2.9.1.0.19a
  - added a patch to allow arm* arch to be identified as an ARM

• Thu Oct 1 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.9.1.0.14.

• Sat Sep 19 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.9.1.0.13.

• Wed Sep 9 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.9.1.0.12

• Thu Jul 2 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.9.1.0.7.

• Wed Jun 3 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.9.1.0.6.

• Tue Jun 2 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added patch from rth to get right offsets for sections in relocateable
  objects on sparc32

• Thu May 7 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>

  - translations modified for de, fr, tr

• Tue May 5 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - version 2.9.1.0.4 is out; even more, it is public !

• Tue May 5 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.9.1.0.3.

• Mon Apr 20 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.9.0.3

• Tue Apr 14 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - upgraded to 2.9.0.2

• Sun Apr 5 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.8.1.0.29 (HJ warned me that this thing is a moving target...
  :-)
  - "fixed" the damn make install command so that all tools get installed

• Thu Apr 2 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - upgraded again to 2.8.1.0.28 (at least on alpha now egcs will compile)
  - added info packages handling

• Tue Mar 10 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - upgraded to 2.8.1.0.23

• Mon Mar 2 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

  - updated to 2.8.1.0.15 (required to compile the newer glibc)
  - all patches are obsoleted now

• Wed Oct 22 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added 2.8.1.0.1 patch from hj
  - added patch for alpha palcode form rth