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I have searched, but not found an option that tells me what version of binutils I have on My Ubuntu. Or at least I don't know how to interpret it.
gcc -v - tells nothing about binutils
ld -v - tells me GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.24. Does this means that I have binutils 2.24?
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The GNU Binary Utilities, or binutils, are a set of programming tools for creating and managing binary programs, object files, libraries, profile data, and assembly source code.
So the binutils package is a required dependency for the gcc package (with many other dependencies, probably including libc and libc-devel , but if you really want you could use some other libc like MUSL libc; the libc is generally providing the dynamic linker like /lib/ld-linux.so* ).
Contents of Binutils. Binutils is a collection of software development tools containing a linker, assembler and other tools to work with object files and archives.
The current release can be downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils. Alternatively, you can use the gitweb interface, or the source snapshots, available as bzipped tar files via anonymous FTP from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots.
Yes, with ld -v you can view the version of binutils (in your case is 2.24)
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I tested it only with the Debian 8, but I think it must be working with other Debian-based operation systems (Ubuntu, Mint, other).
dpkg -l | grep binutils
$ dpkg -l | grep binutils
ii binutils 2.25-5+deb8u1 amd64 GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities
apt-cache policy binutils
$ apt-cache policy binutils
binutils:
Installed: 2.25-5+deb8u1
Candidate: 2.25-5+deb8u1
Version table:
*** 2.25-5+deb8u1 0
500 http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ jessie-proposed-updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.25-5 0
500 http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
apt-cache show binutils (stripped)
$ apt-cache show binutils
Package: binutils
Version: 2.25-5+deb8u1
Installed-Size: 20566
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: binutils-gold (<< 2.20.51.20100415), binutils-mingw-w64-i686 (<< 2.23.52.20130612-1+3), binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64 (<< 2.23.52.20130612-1+3)
Provides: binutils-gold, elf-binutils
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Suggests: binutils-doc (>= 2.25-5+deb8u1)
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ld --version
$ ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.25
ar --version
$ ar --version
GNU ar (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.25
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