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Authored by emaste on Mar 5 2026, 7:04 PM.
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GNU binutils 2.17.50 is the last GPLv2 version, and we retained support
in FreeBSD while it was part of the in-tree toolchain.  The last parts
of binutils 2.17.50 were removed in commit 74e8d41e0ac8 ("Retire
BINUTILS and BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP options") so there is no longer a need
for the build infrastructure.

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emaste requested review of this revision.Mar 5 2026, 7:04 PM
emaste added inline comments.
share/mk/bsd.linker.mk
107–109

I've left these defined unconditionally for now as they may be tested by 3rd party Makefiles. We can remove the in-tree tests for them though, and probably drop them later on.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 5 2026, 7:52 PM