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| author | jmmv <jmmv@pkgsrc.org> | 2003-01-09 21:55:27 +0000 |
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| committer | jmmv <jmmv@pkgsrc.org> | 2003-01-09 21:55:27 +0000 |
| commit | e71324117c02b67391b3579ca5a6f211152b0134 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f3e715929c8e9e752eedb2793081a0e23bec2f2 /devel/binutils/DESCR | |
| parent | e167d34a564a43da40a6a3ec63ba078fa7a89e2a (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-e71324117c02b67391b3579ca5a6f211152b0134.tar.gz | |
Improve description, patch provided in PR pkg/19761 by reed@reedmedia.net.
Diffstat (limited to 'devel/binutils/DESCR')
| -rw-r--r-- | devel/binutils/DESCR | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/devel/binutils/DESCR b/devel/binutils/DESCR index 8f2ff4cd091..fbb0fd2975b 100644 --- a/devel/binutils/DESCR +++ b/devel/binutils/DESCR @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ -This package contains various GNU compilers, assemblers, linkers, -debuggers, etc., plus their support routines, definitions, and -documentation. +The GNU binutils package contains essential tools to assemble, link and +manipulate binary and object files. They are often used with a compiler +and additional libraries for building software. + +It includes the GNU linker, the portable GNU assembler, ar for modifying +archives (such as libraries), nm for listing symbols from object files, +objdump for displaying object file information, ranlib for generating +archive indexes, size for listing sections sizers of object files, +strings for outputing the printable characters in files, strip for +stripping out symbols (like debugging information) from object files, +and other tools. |