2020年2月25日星期二

arch linux, downgrade one package

Linux u 5.5.5-arch1-1

$ pacman --query binutils
binutils 2.34.1-1

compiling perf, got the following errors.



  CC       util/pmu.o
  CC       util/pmu-flex.o
  CC       util/srcline.o
  CC       util/cloexec.o
util/srcline.c: In function ‘find_address_in_section’:
util/srcline.c:200:7: error: implicit declaration of function ‘bfd_get_section_flags’; did you mean ‘bfd_set_section_flags’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  200 |  if ((bfd_get_section_flags(abfd, section) & SEC_ALLOC) == 0)
      |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |       bfd_set_section_flags
util/srcline.c:200:7: error: nested extern declaration of ‘bfd_get_section_flags’ [-Werror=nested-externs]
util/srcline.c:204:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘bfd_get_section_vma’; did you mean ‘bfd_set_section_vma’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  204 |  vma = bfd_get_section_vma(abfd, section);
      |        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |        bfd_set_section_vma
util/srcline.c:204:8: error: nested extern declaration of ‘bfd_get_section_vma’ [-Werror=nested-externs]
util/srcline.c:205:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘bfd_get_section_size’; did you mean ‘bfd_set_section_size’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  205 |  size = bfd_get_section_size(section);
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |         bfd_set_section_size
util/srcline.c:205:9: error: nested extern declaration of ‘bfd_get_section_size’ [-Werror=nested-externs]
  CC       util/call-path.o
  CC       util/rwsem.o
  CC       util/thread-stack.o


It needs downgrade binutils-2.34 to 2.33

here is how


find the the package's url, from here



then execute this:

$ sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/b/binutils/binutils-2.33.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz