GNU Binutils 2.36 Released With Support For Intel AMX, AVX VNNI, Key Locker

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Binutils 2.36 Released With Support For Intel AMX, AVX VNNI, Key Locker

GNU Binutils 2.36 is out today as the latest version of this collection of binary utilities for Linux/open-source systems...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Binutils-2.36-Released

[cl333r]

binutils is comprised of (dpkg -L binutils):

/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/compat-ld
/usr/lib/gold-ld
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/share
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/binutils
/usr/share/bug/binutils/presubj
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/binutils
/usr/share/doc/binutils/copyright
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/binutils
/usr/share/man
/usr/bin/addr2line
/usr/bin/ar
/usr/bin/as
/usr/bin/c++filt
/usr/bin/dwp
/usr/bin/elfedit
/usr/bin/gold
/usr/bin/gprof
/usr/bin/ld
/usr/bin/ld.bfd
/usr/bin/ld.gold
/usr/bin/nm
/usr/bin/objcopy
/usr/bin/objdump
/usr/bin/ranlib
/usr/bin/readelf
/usr/bin/size
/usr/bin/strings
/usr/bin/strip
/usr/lib/compat-ld/ld
/usr/lib/gold-ld/ld
/usr/share/doc/binutils/changelog.Debian.gz 

What I don't understand is why is dpkg -L listing /usr, /usr/bin, /usr/lib? Afaik they're not part of binutils, just parent directories that exist regardless.

[guspitts]

That is true for every package. No package really owns the directory, but any of these package would create the directories if they don't exist. For example dpkg -L vim:

/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/vim.basic
/usr/share
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/vim
/usr/share/bug/vim/presubj
/usr/share/bug/vim/script
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/vim
/usr/share/doc/vim/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/vim/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/vim/copyright
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/vim

[rene]

Thanks, updated in #t2sde – https://t2sde.org/packages/binutils the new ISO next week will be built with it ;-)