Improving the performance of bfd function lookup_func_by_offset

Add the --package-metadata option to the linkers. (#2099999)

Fix a couple of x86_64 linker testsuite failures.

Tweak the PowerPC assembler's handling of the .machine directive. (#2111082)

Check and enable 64-bit bfd on aarch64 and riscv64.

Restore the use of --enable-64-bit-bfd for the AArch64 and riscv64 targets.

Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild

Fix a problem honouring readelf's -wE and -wN command line options.

Fix a problem with PowerPC's handling of DT_RELR relocs. (#2095622)
Move annobin data into a separate debuginfo file.

Fix bugs preventing the linker tests from running.

Fix bug in binutils.spec file that was causing the wrong linker flags to be used.

Change the ld man page so that it says that --enable-new-dtags is the default. (#2090818)

x86 linker: Disallow invalid relocations against protected symbols. (#2089358)

Stop readelf and objdump from unnecessarily following links. (#2086863)

Add support for generating static PIE binaries for s390x. (#2088331)

Fix description of gold subpackage so that it does not include the Requires fields. (#2082919)