About:
GNU binutils work mostly behind the scenes of Linux development, largely because GNU make and the GCC frontend does so many things automatically. Utilities include: ld as nm objdump objcopy nm ar ranlib strip c filt size addr2line and dlltool.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
This release includes improved ARM support, improved DOS file system support, improved MIPS support, and the documentation is now under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Author:
binutils developers <binutils |at| sourceware |dot| org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.74/10.00 (8 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
Tar/GZ:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.18.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.18.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://sourceware.org/[..]cvsweb.cgi/src/binutils/NEWS?cvsroot=src
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/?cvsroot=src
Bug tracker:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
Mailing list archive:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/

Trove categories: [change]

[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3
[Topic]		Software Development :: Build Tools, Software Development :: Compilers

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.18	06-May-2008	GNU General Public License v3

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.18	Major feature enhancements	06-May-2008 15:34
2.17	N/A	23-Mar-2007 13:03
2.16.1	Minor bugfixes	14-Aug-2005 12:23
2.14	N/A	07-Jul-2003 18:53
2.13.1	Minor bugfixes	15-Dec-2002 18:28
2.13	N/A	07-Aug-2002 04:08
2.12.1	N/A	28-May-2002 16:37
2.12	Minor bugfixes	19-Mar-2002 21:19
2.11.2	Minor bugfixes	27-Aug-2001 04:17
2.11	Minor feature enhancements	16-Apr-2001 07:36

 Articles referencing this project

• Red Hat: Updated binutils package fixes minor security issues
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Thu, Oct 6th 2005 11:05
  
• Red Hat: Updated binutils package fixes a minor security issue
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Fri, Sep 30th 2005 04:19
  
• Optimization
  by Erik Greenwald , in Editorials
  Sat, Oct 7th 2000 23:59
  

 Comments

[»] Wed Jul 25 11:16:13 MST 2001 binutils-2.11.2 is most current stable?
by Kyle - Jul 25th 2001 14:17:30

Anyone doing freshmeat releases for binutils?

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[»] Re: Wed Jul 25 11:16:13 MST 2001 binutils-2.11.2 is most current stable?
by Dagobert Michelsen - May 6th 2008 12:22:22


> Anyone doing freshmeat releases for

> binutils?

How about you do it? ;-)

Best regards

-- Dago

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[»] ftp.varesearch.com:/pub/support/hjl/binutils
by CatatoniC Dismay - Nov 8th 1999 09:54:32

wow i remembered my password.. anyway if you would have just looked around a little you would have found it.

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[»] No RPM?
by Rohan - Aug 15th 1999 03:04:42

The rpms also appear to be non existent...

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