Recently, a new version of binutils was released.

I had reported earlier about some patches needed to work around errata bugs in the Loongson CPUs.  There were also some other big updates since.  GCC 4.5 and Perl 5.12 have both been unmasked, enough has changed to warrant a rebuild before things get too far out of date.

This release will come with binutils-2.21 which incorporates many fixes for linker issues on MIPS, as well as the Loongson errata.  I have successfully compiled KDE 4.5 using a CVS HEAD version of binutils snapshotted around the time that the 2.21 branch was created, and found that it has fixed quite a few issues.

If you haven’t upgraded just yet, hold on a few weeks and I’ll have new stages up for all to try out.  MIPS-I Little-Endian is building now as I type this, I’m in the process of building seed stages for big-endian builds.  MIPS-III and MIPS-IV little endian builds will begin very soon too (before noon AEST).

I expect I should have most of the little-endian builds up before new year, and the whole release out in early January 2011.