Heads up, current version in the tree is vulnerable to several issues https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8501 https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8502 https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8503
A commit references this bug: Author: brooks Date: Tue Mar 24 21:32:05 UTC 2015 New revision: 382177 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/382177 Log: The ancient version of binutils in the cross-binutils port suffers for several vulnerabilities. This also effects devel/mingw64-binutils. PR: 198816 Reported by: Sevan Janiyan <venture37@geeklan.co.uk> Changes: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
A commit references this bug: Author: brooks Date: Tue Mar 24 21:32:48 UTC 2015 New revision: 382179 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/382179 Log: The ancient version of binutils in the cross-binutils port suffers for several vulnerabilities. Mark it FORBIDDEN and DEPRECATED and set it expire April 15th. This also effects devel/mingw64-binutils. Consumers of this port should switch to devel/binutil or slave ports there of. PR: 198816 Reported by: Sevan Janiyan <venture37@geeklan.co.uk> Changes: head/devel/cross-binutils/Makefile
This port is old, broken on CURRENT, and has few consumers so I've set it to expire shortly which will finish fixing the problem.