binutils warning

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sat Apr 22 14:16:52 UTC 2017


On 2017-04-22 14:28, db wrote:
> I thought of upgrading strings and found it in binutils. During
> installation a warning showed which doesn't seem to hold true at
> least from inspecting the contents tracked by port command, and the
> notes advise to uninstall it. It has no maintainer. Any ideas?

As identified by going back in history with 'git blame':

https://trac.macports.org/changeset/67114

As far as I remember, some build systems will prefer /opt/local/bin/gas
over /usr/bin/as, although the former does not support some options
(such as `-arch`).

Rainer


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