sys-devel/binutils (sam_c)

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Description:
Tools necessary to build programs
Homepage:
https://sourceware.org/binutils/
License:
GPL-3+

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<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>toolchain@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Gentoo Toolchain Project</name>
	</maintainer>
	<use>
		<flag name="cet">Enable Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology.</flag>
		<flag name="default-gold">Set ld to point to ld.gold instead of ld.bfd</flag>
		<flag name="gold">Build ld.gold linker</flag>
		<flag name="gprofng">Enable the next-generation gprofng profiler</flag>
		<flag name="pgo">Build binutils with Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) and LTO</flag>
		<flag name="plugins">Enable plugin support in tools</flag>
		<flag name="multitarget">Adds support to binutils for cross compiling (does not work with gas)</flag>
		<flag name="debuginfod">Enable debuginfod support via <pkg>dev-libs/elfutils</pkg> libdebuginfod</flag>
		<flag name="xxhash">Use <pkg>dev-libs/xxhash</pkg> for --build-id=xx support</flag>
	</use>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:gnu:binutils</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

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USE Flags

Flag Description 9999
cet Enable Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology.
debuginfod Enable debuginfod support via <pkg>dev-libs/elfutils</pkg> libdebuginfod
doc Build documentation and man pages. With this USE flag disabled, the --help parameter for perf and its sub-tools will not be available. This is optional because it depends on a few documentation handling tools that are not always welcome on user systems. ⚠️
gprofng Enable the next-generation gprofng profiler
hardened ⚠️
multitarget Adds support to binutils for cross compiling (does not work with gas)
nls ⚠️
pgo Build binutils with Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) and LTO
plugins Enable plugin support in tools
static-libs ⚠️
test ⚠️
vanilla ⚠️
xxhash Use <pkg>dev-libs/xxhash</pkg> for --build-id=xx support
zstd ⚠️

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