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Fedora Core 5: FEDORA-2006-263 Critical: Binutils Update 2.16.91.0.6-5

fedora
Calendar Grey April 3, 2006
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The release of Fedora Core 5 brings an important binutils enhancement aimed at addressing various concerns related to GNU tools; this update features a vital correction.
Updated package.

Summary

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).

- fix ld error message formatting, so that collect2 parser can

parse it again for g++ -frepo (#187142)

17073f57b59af4acbe21a378d00923cd06d1b351 SRPMS/binutils-2.16.91.0.6-5.src.rpm

2f879671a32e0229eb3d0e683e69749e59f7564b ppc/binutils-2.16.91.0.6-5.ppc.rpm

8410ac7bfcb89504ddc48c60b5d7a05125399b4f ppc/debug/binutils-debuginfo-2.16.91.0.6-5.ppc.rpm

ebf54ef4ab31214ebf39e0b6baee64e2f2532737 x86_64/binutils-2.16.91.0.6-5.x86_64.rpm

91b876886fe1f3fa12d4b717b570af930afb141c x86_64/debug/binutils-debuginfo-2.16.91.0.6-5.x86_64.rpm

c7b473c6348166abcae32016b7e4a7b5cf92fa50 i386/binutils-2.16.91.0.6-5.i386.rpm

7572f29c2a78c1d280f32a602743e63a6818a128 i386/debug/binutils-debuginfo-2.16.91.0.6-5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update

package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing

Software with yum,' available at .

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Name: binutils
Version: 2.16.91.0.6
Release: 5
Summary: A GNU collection of binary utilities.

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