Updated to 2.31.1 20181202.
gold: applied upstream fix for ELF compressed data alignment (sw#23919).
Built with system zlib.

Updated to 2.31.1 20181130.
gold: applied a fix for ELF compressed data alignment

Fixed ELF compressed data alignment (sw#23919; patch by Mark Wielaard).
Disabled gold debug_msg.sh test for x86_64.
Applied mips-related spec changes from Ivan A. Melnikov (iv@; ALT#35638):
worthy architectures, but ignore results.

Updated to 2.31.1 20181107.

Dropped ld.bfd/ld.gold alternatives in favour of ld wrapper setup:

Updated to 2.30.0 20180528.
Packaged binutils sources as separate package.

Updated to 2.27.0 20161101.

Updated to 2.26.1 20160701.

Applied upstream fix for sw#19886.

Updated to 2.26.0 20160318.

%check: xfailed failing gold tests.

Applied backports prepared by Nick Clifton that fix
2014-848[45], CVE-2014-850[1234], and CVE-2014-873[78].
strings: enabled --all option by default, added --data option

Applied upstream fix for sw#16457.

Fixed ld and gold tests (gcc4.9).

Updated to 2.24.0 20140113.
ld, gold: changed defaults:
z relro by default;

Fixed build.