Fedora 9 Update: binutils-2.18.50.0.6-4.fc9

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-6494
2008-07-18 01:38:06
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Name        : binutils
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.18.50.0.6
Release     : 4.fc9
URL         : http://sources.redhat.com/binutils
Summary     : A GNU collection of binary utilities.
Description :
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for
creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU
assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the
GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for
copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying
information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for
the contents of an archive), size (for listing the section sizes of an
object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from
files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting
addresses to file and line).

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Update Information:

Rebuilt libbfd.a with -fPIC to make shared libraries linking with libbfd.a
possible.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul 16 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> 2.18.50.0.6-4
- include the `dist' tag in the Release number
- libbfd.a symbols visibility is now hidden (for #447426, suggested by Jakub)
* Wed Jul 16 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> 2.18.50.0.6-3
- rebuild libbfd.a with -fPIC for inclusion into shared libraries (#447426)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #447426 - libbfd binutils -fPIC
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447426
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update binutils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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