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| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix | 16 |
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diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix index c3d25c72323c..4ccaa550313b 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix @@ -6,6 +6,22 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec { name = basename + stdenv.lib.optionalString (cross != null) "-${cross.config}"; + # WARNING: Upstream made a mistake in packaging that may mean anyone + # but the FSF hosting this tarball is accidentally in violation of + # the GPL. We can't update binutils until the next stdenv-updates, + # so we are stuck with this version. The issue is discussed in + # this email: http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-08/msg00198.html + # The tarball for this minor version will not be fixed, as only the + # tarballs for the latest minor version of each major version will + # be repackaged. The fixed sources for the closest version to this one + # can be found at mirror://gnu/binutils/binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 + # or http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 + # The sources missing from this tarball come from cgen. It is unclear + # WHICH sources should be included, but the cvs tree can be checked out + # by: + # cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src login + # {enter "anoncvs" as the password} + # cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co cgen src = fetchurl { url = "http://nixos.org/tarballs/${basename}.tar.bz2"; sha256 = "1iyhc42zfa0j2gaxy4zvpk47sdqj4rqvib0mb8597ss8yidyrav0"; |