add powerpc target for ppc64el

fixed in 14.10 and 15.04

Hello Breno, or anyone else affected,

Accepted binutils into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.24-5ubuntu13 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Thanks Steve!

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Steve Langasek <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Hello Breno, or anyone else affected,
>
> Accepted binutils into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and
> be available at
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.24-5ubuntu13 in a few
> hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
>
> Please help us by testing this new package. See
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
> enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update
> out to other Ubuntu users.
>
> If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
> mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
> from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
> bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
> verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help
> us make a better decision.
>
> Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in
> advance!
>
> ** Changed in: binutils (Ubuntu Trusty)
> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
>
> ** Tags added: verification-needed
>
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This bug was fixed in the package binutils - 2.24-5ubuntu13

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binutils (2.24-5ubuntu13) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU LP: #1311866.
  * Update from the 2.24 branch, 20141113.
    - Fix PR gold/16945, properly handle 64-bit GOT relocations on x86_64.
    - Fix PR gold/16900, an issue where first reserved word of GOT is not
      initialized if there is no PLT.
    - gold: Fix handling of __ehdr_start when it cannot be defined.
    - Apply mainline patches for ppc476 workaround.
    - Add binutils test cases for AArch64.
    - Disassembler fix on AArch64.
    - Fix PR ld/17047, crash in the bfd linker with MALLOC_PERTURB.
    - Fix PR ld/17277, ARM32, bogus DT_TEXTREL marker (and R_ARM_NONE)
      for PC-relative cross-section relocs.
    - [AArch64] Cortex-A53 erratum 835769 linker workaround.
  * Remove the aarch64-fix-instruction-mask, applied on the branch.
  * Fix PR gold/15639, -flto and ld.gold on ARM. LP: #1191909.
  * Use 64k for COMMONPAGESIZE on PPC. LP: #1412553.
  * Fix PR ld/16452, PR ld/16457, don't output symbol version definitions
    for non-DT_NEEDED. LP: #1248642.
  * Add powerpc target for ppc64el builds. Closes: #760395. LP: #1433238.
  * binutils-doc: Include all info files. LP: #1410780.
  * Fix PR ld/16715 (ARM), set st_value to zero for undefined symbols.
    LP: #1441961.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:52:45 +0200

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