Bug 271475

Summary:	security/nss: investigate dropping binutils
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	(intentionally left blank) <throwaway_vthgwq4>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-gecko (Nobody) <gecko>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me	Flags:	bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (gecko)
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description (intentionally left blank) 2023-05-17 21:57:31 UTC

Chimera Linux applied patch [1] to allow build without binutils.

Consider pulling [1] from cports, as this would allow to build NSS when LLVM IR is generated which is not understood by binutils. This is prerequisite for e.g. ThinLTO (LTO (fat LTO) != ThinLTO) or -fsanitize for CFI.

I can't test build or runtime at the moment, but NSS with [1] applied used to build on Gentoo here (musl + LLVM without binutils or gcc, global ThinLTO). 

[1]: https://github.com/chimera-linux/cports/blob/f3e0e579542e/main/nss/patches/clang-ias.patch