Re: [ptxdist] [ANNOUNCE] OSELAS.Toolchain() 2024.11.0 released

[Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>]

Hi Michael,

On 13/11/2024 12:09, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm happy to announce that I've just released OSELAS.Toolchain-2024.11.0.
> 
> This is a major release with significant changes. All components of the
> primary toolchains have been updated to the latest versions. The highlights
> are:
>   - binutils 2.43.1
>   - clang 19.1.3
>   - gcc 14.2
>   - gdb 15.2
>   - glibc 2.40
>   - kernel headers 6.11.6
>   - rustc 1.82.0
> 
> Beyond that, glibc is now built with more hardening features enabled,
> specifically --enable-bind-now and --enable-fortify-source.
> 
> The debug sections in all target libraries are now zstd compressed. And ld
> will use that by default with --compress-debug-sections.
> 
> The minimum kernel version that glibc will run on is now v5.15.
> 
> Download the release here:
> https://public.pengutronix.de/oselas/toolchain/
> 
> Debian / Ubuntu Packages will be available at
> http://debian.pengutronix.de/
> 
> My current plan is to build packages for Debian trixie/sid, bookworm,
> and Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04. The packages will show up in the near future.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Michael Olbrich
> 

Thanks for the release.  A "nice to have" would have been 64-bit time_t 
support in 32-bit libstdc++ to tick off one more box for Y2038 support. 
There was some discussion about this earlier this year:

https://lore.ptxdist.org/ptxdist/24f03e42-a9ab-4303-9d0e-3b1ff24e0097@erwinrol.com/

Kind regards,
Ian

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