Upgrade to Binutils-2.18. Fixes #2069. Thanks to Matt Burgess for the patch.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8372 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
     <listitem>
        <para>2007-09-15</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.18.  Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2069">#2069</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2067">#2067</ulink>.</para>

chapter01/whatsnew.xml

@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@
     <title>Upgraded to:</title>
 
 
+<!--
     <listitem>
       <para>None yet</para>
     </listitem>
-
+-->
 
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Autoconf &autoconf-version;</para>
@@ -39,11 +40,11 @@
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>Berkeley DB &db-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
     <listitem>
       <para>Binutils &binutils-version;</para>
     </listitem>
-    <listitem>
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Bison &bison-version;</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>

packages.ent

@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@
 <!ENTITY bash-doc-md5 "0e904cb46ca873fcfa65df19b024bec9">
 <!ENTITY bash-doc-home " ">
 
-<!ENTITY binutils-version "2.17">
-<!ENTITY binutils-size "13,472 KB">
+<!ENTITY binutils-version "2.18">
+<!ENTITY binutils-size "14,612 KB">
 <!ENTITY binutils-url "&gnu;binutils/binutils-&binutils-version;.tar.bz2">
-<!ENTITY binutils-md5 "e26e2e06b6e4bf3acf1dc8688a94c0d1">
+<!ENTITY binutils-md5 "9d22ee4dafa3a194457caf4706f9cf01">
 <!ENTITY binutils-home "http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/">
 <!ENTITY binutils-ch5p1-du "213 MB">
 <!ENTITY binutils-ch5p1-sbu "1 SBU">

prologue/hostreqs.xml

@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@
       <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
+    <!-- Needed by the apparently broken Binutils-2.18 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.8</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
   </itemizedlist>
 
   <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
@@ -139,7 +144,8 @@ cat /proc/version
 make --version | head -n1
 patch --version | head -n1
 sed --version | head -n1
-tar --version | head -n1</literal>
+tar --version | head -n1
+makeinfo --version | head -n1</literal>
 
 EOF