libbfd_2_38, libopcodes_2_38: create held back release

2.39 has an API breakage that will take users some time to migrate.
Create _2_38 versions to allow them to hand on an old version for a
while.

14 files changed, 1093 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/0001-Revert-libtool.m4-fix-nm-BSD-flag-detection.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/0001-Revert-libtool.m4-fix-nm-BSD-flag-detection.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f9c6e88d97b45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/0001-Revert-libtool.m4-fix-nm-BSD-flag-detection.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+From beca4a2c25ee86e4020f8b8bddc4d8e0ed3430b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Andrew Childs <andrew.childs@bibo.com.ph>
+Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:28:04 +0900
+Subject: [PATCH] Revert "libtool.m4: fix nm BSD flag detection"
+
+This reverts commit bef9ef8ca0f941d743c77cc55b5fe7985990b2a7.
+---
+ ChangeLog  |  9 ------
+ libtool.m4 | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
+ 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
+index 18e8b6835da..c12f07403c3 100644
+--- a/ChangeLog
++++ b/ChangeLog
+@@ -375,15 +375,6 @@
+ 
+ 	* src-release.sh (GDB_SUPPPORT_DIRS): Add libbacktrace.
+ 
+-2021-09-27  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
+-
+-	PR libctf/27967
+-	* libtool.m4 (LT_PATH_NM): Try BSDization flags with a user-provided
+-	NM, if there is one.  Run nm on itself, not on /dev/null, to avoid
+-	errors from nms that refuse to work on non-regular files.  Remove
+-	other workarounds for this problem.  Strip out blank lines from the
+-	nm output.
+-
+ 2021-09-27  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
+ 
+ 	PR libctf/27967
+diff --git a/libtool.m4 b/libtool.m4
+index a216bb14e99..7a711249304 100644
+--- a/libtool.m4
++++ b/libtool.m4
+@@ -3200,55 +3200,53 @@ _LT_DECL([], [file_magic_cmd], [1],
+ 
+ # LT_PATH_NM
+ # ----------
+-# find the pathname to a BSD- or MS-compatible name lister, and any flags
+-# needed to make it compatible
++# find the pathname to a BSD- or MS-compatible name lister
+ AC_DEFUN([LT_PATH_NM],
+ [AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])dnl
+ AC_CACHE_CHECK([for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)], lt_cv_path_NM,
+ [if test -n "$NM"; then
+-   # Let the user override the nm to test.
+-   lt_nm_to_check="$NM"
+- else
+-   lt_nm_to_check="${ac_tool_prefix}nm"
+-   if test -n "$ac_tool_prefix" && test "$build" = "$host"; then
+-     lt_nm_to_check="$lt_nm_to_check nm"
+-   fi
+- fi
+- for lt_tmp_nm in $lt_nm_to_check; do
+-   lt_save_ifs="$IFS"; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+-   for ac_dir in $PATH /usr/ccs/bin/elf /usr/ccs/bin /usr/ucb /bin; do
+-     IFS="$lt_save_ifs"
+-     test -z "$ac_dir" && ac_dir=.
+-     case "$lt_tmp_nm" in
+-     */*|*\\*) tmp_nm="$lt_tmp_nm";;
+-     *) tmp_nm="$ac_dir/$lt_tmp_nm";;
+-     esac
+-     if test -f "$tmp_nm" || test -f "$tmp_nm$ac_exeext" ; then
+-       # Check to see if the nm accepts a BSD-compat flag.
+-       # Adding the `sed 1q' prevents false positives on HP-UX, which says:
+-       #   nm: unknown option "B" ignored
+-       case `"$tmp_nm" -B "$tmp_nm" 2>&1 | grep -v '^ *$' | sed '1q'` in
+-       *$tmp_nm*) lt_cv_path_NM="$tmp_nm -B"
+-	 break
+-	 ;;
+-       *)
+-	 case `"$tmp_nm" -p "$tmp_nm" 2>&1 | grep -v '^ *$' | sed '1q'` in
+-	 *$tmp_nm*)
+-	   lt_cv_path_NM="$tmp_nm -p"
+-	   break
+-	   ;;
+-	 *)
+-	   lt_cv_path_NM=${lt_cv_path_NM="$tmp_nm"} # keep the first match, but
+-	   continue # so that we can try to find one that supports BSD flags
+-	   ;;
+-	 esac
+-	 ;;
+-       esac
+-     fi
+-   done
+-   IFS="$lt_save_ifs"
+- done
+- : ${lt_cv_path_NM=no}])
++  # Let the user override the test.
++  lt_cv_path_NM="$NM"
++else
++  lt_nm_to_check="${ac_tool_prefix}nm"
++  if test -n "$ac_tool_prefix" && test "$build" = "$host"; then
++    lt_nm_to_check="$lt_nm_to_check nm"
++  fi
++  for lt_tmp_nm in $lt_nm_to_check; do
++    lt_save_ifs="$IFS"; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
++    for ac_dir in $PATH /usr/ccs/bin/elf /usr/ccs/bin /usr/ucb /bin; do
++      IFS="$lt_save_ifs"
++      test -z "$ac_dir" && ac_dir=.
++      tmp_nm="$ac_dir/$lt_tmp_nm"
++      if test -f "$tmp_nm" || test -f "$tmp_nm$ac_exeext" ; then
++	# Check to see if the nm accepts a BSD-compat flag.
++	# Adding the `sed 1q' prevents false positives on HP-UX, which says:
++	#   nm: unknown option "B" ignored
++	# Tru64's nm complains that /dev/null is an invalid object file
++	case `"$tmp_nm" -B /dev/null 2>&1 | sed '1q'` in
++	*/dev/null* | *'Invalid file or object type'*)
++	  lt_cv_path_NM="$tmp_nm -B"
++	  break
++	  ;;
++	*)
++	  case `"$tmp_nm" -p /dev/null 2>&1 | sed '1q'` in
++	  */dev/null*)
++	    lt_cv_path_NM="$tmp_nm -p"
++	    break
++	    ;;
++	  *)
++	    lt_cv_path_NM=${lt_cv_path_NM="$tmp_nm"} # keep the first match, but
++	    continue # so that we can try to find one that supports BSD flags
++	    ;;
++	  esac
++	  ;;
++	esac
++      fi
++    done
++    IFS="$lt_save_ifs"
++  done
++  : ${lt_cv_path_NM=no}
++fi])
+ if test "$lt_cv_path_NM" != "no"; then
+   NM="$lt_cv_path_NM"
+ else
+-- 
+2.34.1
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/0001-libtool.m4-update-macos-version-detection-block.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/0001-libtool.m4-update-macos-version-detection-block.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e601be3a33082
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/0001-libtool.m4-update-macos-version-detection-block.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+From 33a8dc728eb5da3e1d3439c96810d1f6b2660b89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Andrew Childs <andrew.childs@bibo.com.ph>
+Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:24:46 +0900
+Subject: [PATCH] libtool.m4: update macos version detection block
+
+Includes upstream change
+9e8c882517082fe5755f2524d23efb02f1522490
+---
+ libtool.m4 | 21 ++++++++-------------
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/libtool.m4 b/libtool.m4
+index 7a711249304..f452efb4300 100644
+--- a/libtool.m4
++++ b/libtool.m4
+@@ -996,20 +996,15 @@ _LT_EOF
+     ])
+     case $host_os in
+     rhapsody* | darwin1.[[012]])
+-      _lt_dar_allow_undefined='${wl}-undefined ${wl}suppress' ;;
++      _lt_dar_allow_undefined='$wl-undefined ${wl}suppress' ;;
+     darwin1.*)
+-      _lt_dar_allow_undefined='${wl}-flat_namespace ${wl}-undefined ${wl}suppress' ;;
+-    darwin*) # darwin 5.x on
+-      # if running on 10.5 or later, the deployment target defaults
+-      # to the OS version, if on x86, and 10.4, the deployment
+-      # target defaults to 10.4. Don't you love it?
+-      case ${MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET-10.0},$host in
+-	10.0,*86*-darwin8*|10.0,*-darwin[[91]]*)
+-	  _lt_dar_allow_undefined='${wl}-undefined ${wl}dynamic_lookup' ;;
+-	10.[[012]][[,.]]*)
+-	  _lt_dar_allow_undefined='${wl}-flat_namespace ${wl}-undefined ${wl}suppress' ;;
+-	10.*)
+-	  _lt_dar_allow_undefined='${wl}-undefined ${wl}dynamic_lookup' ;;
++      _lt_dar_allow_undefined='$wl-flat_namespace $wl-undefined ${wl}suppress' ;;
++    darwin*)
++      case $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET,$host in
++        10.[[012]],*|,*powerpc*-darwin[[5-8]]*)
++          _lt_dar_allow_undefined='$wl-flat_namespace $wl-undefined ${wl}suppress' ;;
++        *)
++          _lt_dar_allow_undefined='$wl-undefined ${wl}dynamic_lookup' ;;
+       esac
+     ;;
+   esac
+-- 
+2.34.1
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/R_ARM_COPY.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/R_ARM_COPY.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..874809863523d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/R_ARM_COPY.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+@@ -, +, @@ 
+---
+ bfd/elf32-arm.c | 8 +++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+--- a/bfd/elf32-arm.c	
++++ a/bfd/elf32-arm.c	
+@@ -15398,7 +15398,11 @@ elf32_arm_adjust_dynamic_symbol (struct bfd_link_info * info,
+      linker to copy the initial value out of the dynamic object and into
+      the runtime process image.  We need to remember the offset into the
+      .rel(a).bss section we are going to use.  */
+-  if ((h->root.u.def.section->flags & SEC_READONLY) != 0)
++  if (info->nocopyreloc == 0
++      && (h->root.u.def.section->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0
++      /* PR 16177: A copy is only needed if the input section is readonly.  */
++      && (h->root.u.def.section->flags & SEC_READONLY) != 0
++      && h->size != 0)
+     {
+       s = globals->root.sdynrelro;
+       srel = globals->root.sreldynrelro;
+@@ -15410,6 +15414,8 @@ elf32_arm_adjust_dynamic_symbol (struct bfd_link_info * info,
+     }
+   if (info->nocopyreloc == 0
+       && (h->root.u.def.section->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0
++      /* PR 16177: A copy is only needed if the input section is readonly.  */
++      && (h->root.u.def.section->flags & SEC_READONLY) != 0
+       && h->size != 0)
+     {
+       elf32_arm_allocate_dynrelocs (info, srel, 1);
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/always-search-rpath.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/always-search-rpath.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2e9956e6b6e45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/always-search-rpath.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff --git a/ld/genscripts.sh b/ld/genscripts.sh
+index b6940d376d..0feb1adfd0 100755
+--- a/ld/genscripts.sh
++++ b/ld/genscripts.sh
+@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ if test "x$NATIVE" = "xyes" ; then
+   USE_LIBPATH=yes
+ fi
+ 
++# TODO: why is this needed?
++USE_LIBPATH=yes
++
+ # Set the library search path, for libraries named by -lfoo.
+ # If LIB_PATH is defined (e.g., by Makefile) and non-empty, it is used.
+ # Otherwise, the default is set here.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/build-components-separately.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/build-components-separately.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0b4162d848803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/build-components-separately.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+diff --git a/bfd/configure.ac b/bfd/configure.ac
+index fec067b2135..377e1f5443f 100644
+--- a/bfd/configure.ac
++++ b/bfd/configure.ac
+@@ -292,30 +292,16 @@ AC_CACHE_CHECK(linker --as-needed support, bfd_cv_ld_as_needed,
+ 
+ LT_LIB_M
+ 
+-# When building a shared libbfd, link against the pic version of libiberty
+-# so that apps that use libbfd won't need libiberty just to satisfy any
+-# libbfd references.
+-# We can't do that if a pic libiberty is unavailable since including non-pic
+-# code would insert text relocations into libbfd.
+ SHARED_LIBADD=
+-SHARED_LDFLAGS=
++SHARED_LDFLAGS=-liberty
+ if test "$enable_shared" = "yes"; then
+-changequote(,)dnl
+-  x=`sed -n -e 's/^[ 	]*PICFLAG[ 	]*=[ 	]*//p' < ../libiberty/Makefile | sed -n '$p'`
+-changequote([,])dnl
+-  if test -n "$x"; then
+-    SHARED_LIBADD="-L`pwd`/../libiberty/pic -liberty"
+-  fi
+-fi
+-
+ SHARED_LIBADD="$SHARED_LIBADD $LIBINTL"
+ 
+-if test "$enable_shared" = "yes"; then
+   case "${host}" in
+   # More hacks to build DLLs on Windows.
+   *-*-cygwin*)
+     SHARED_LDFLAGS="-no-undefined"
+-    SHARED_LIBADD="-L`pwd`/../libiberty -liberty $SHARED_LIBADD -lcygwin -lkernel32"
++    SHARED_LIBADD="-liberty $SHARED_LIBADD -lcygwin -lkernel32"
+   ;;
+   esac
+ 
+diff --git a/opcodes/Makefile.am b/opcodes/Makefile.am
+index 0e04b4c05c4..848a02662e7 100644
+--- a/opcodes/Makefile.am
++++ b/opcodes/Makefile.am
+@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ libopcodes_la_LDFLAGS += -rpath $(rpath_bfdlibdir)
+ endif
+ 
+ # This is where bfd.h lives.
+-BFD_H = ../bfd/bfd.h
++BFD_H = $(BFDDIR)/bfd.h
+ 
+ BUILD_LIBS = @BUILD_LIBS@
+ BUILD_LIB_DEPS = @BUILD_LIB_DEPS@
+@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ OFILES = @BFD_MACHINES@
+ # development.sh is used to determine -Werror default.
+ CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES = $(BFDDIR)/development.sh
+ 
+-AM_CPPFLAGS = -I. -I$(srcdir) -I../bfd -I$(INCDIR) -I$(BFDDIR) @HDEFINES@ @INCINTL@
++AM_CPPFLAGS = -I. -I$(srcdir) -I$(INCDIR) -I$(BFDDIR) @HDEFINES@ @INCINTL@
+ 
+ disassemble.lo: disassemble.c
+ if am__fastdepCC
+@@ -327,9 +327,18 @@ libopcodes_la_SOURCES =  dis-buf.c disassemble.c dis-init.c
+-libopcodes_la_DEPENDENCIES = $(OFILES) @SHARED_DEPENDENCIES@
++libopcodes_la_DEPENDENCIES = $(OFILES) @SHARED_DEPENDENCIES@ libtool-soversion
+ libopcodes_la_LIBADD = $(OFILES) @SHARED_LIBADD@
+-libopcodes_la_LDFLAGS += -release `cat ../bfd/libtool-soversion` @SHARED_LDFLAGS@
++libopcodes_la_LDFLAGS += -release `cat libtool-soversion` @SHARED_LDFLAGS@
+ # Allow dependency tracking to work on all the source files.
+ EXTRA_libopcodes_la_SOURCES = $(LIBOPCODES_CFILES)
+ 
++libtool-soversion:
++	@echo "creating $@"
++	bfd_soversion="$(VERSION)" ;\
++	. $(BFDDIR)/development.sh ;\
++	if test "$$development" = true ; then \
++	  bfd_soversion="$(VERSION).$${bfd_version_date}" ;\
++	fi ;\
++	echo "$${bfd_soversion}" > $@
++
+ # libtool will build .libs/libopcodes.a.  We create libopcodes.a in
+ # the build directory so that we don't have to convert all the
+ # programs that use libopcodes.a simultaneously.  This is a hack which
+diff --git a/opcodes/configure.ac b/opcodes/configure.ac
+index e564f067334..5da62a3d58b 100644
+--- a/opcodes/configure.ac
++++ b/opcodes/configure.ac
+@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ BFD_64_BIT
+ AC_SUBST(HDEFINES)
+ AC_PROG_INSTALL
+ 
++GCC_HEADER_STDINT(bfd_stdint.h)
++
+ AC_CHECK_DECLS([basename, stpcpy])
+ 
+ # Check if sigsetjmp is available.  Using AC_CHECK_FUNCS won't do
+@@ -148,44 +150,21 @@ AC_CACHE_CHECK(linker --as-needed support, bfd_cv_ld_as_needed,
+ 
+ LT_LIB_M
+ 
+-#Libs for generator progs
+-if test "x$cross_compiling" = "xno"; then
+-  BUILD_LIBS=../libiberty/libiberty.a
+-  BUILD_LIB_DEPS=$BUILD_LIBS
+-else
+-  # if cross-compiling, assume that the system provides -liberty
+-  # and that the version is compatible with new headers.
+-  BUILD_LIBS=-liberty
+-  BUILD_LIB_DEPS=
+-fi
+-BUILD_LIBS="$BUILD_LIBS $LIBINTL"
+-BUILD_LIB_DEPS="$BUILD_LIB_DEPS $LIBINTL_DEP"
++BUILD_LIBS="-liberty $LIBINTL"
++BUILD_LIB_DEPS="$LIBINTL_DEP"
+ 
+ AC_SUBST(BUILD_LIBS)
+ AC_SUBST(BUILD_LIB_DEPS)
+ 
+ # Horrible hacks to build DLLs on Windows and a shared library elsewhere.
+ SHARED_LDFLAGS=
+-SHARED_LIBADD=
++SHARED_LIBADD=-liberty
+ SHARED_DEPENDENCIES=
+-if test "$enable_shared" = "yes"; then
+-# When building a shared libopcodes, link against the pic version of libiberty
+-# so that apps that use libopcodes won't need libiberty just to satisfy any
+-# libopcodes references.
+-# We can't do that if a pic libiberty is unavailable since including non-pic
+-# code would insert text relocations into libopcodes.
+ # Note that linking against libbfd as we do here, which is itself linked
+ # against libiberty, may not satisfy all the libopcodes libiberty references
+ # since libbfd may not pull in the entirety of libiberty.
+ # Also, jam libintl into the right place in all of this: after libiberty,
+ # which uses it, but before -lcygwin, which it uses.
+-changequote(,)dnl
+-  x=`sed -n -e 's/^[ 	]*PICFLAG[ 	]*=[ 	]*//p' < ../libiberty/Makefile | sed -n '$p'`
+-changequote([,])dnl
+-  if test -n "$x"; then
+-    SHARED_LIBADD="-L`pwd`/../libiberty/pic -liberty"
+-  fi
+-fi
+ 
+ SHARED_LIBADD="$SHARED_LIBADD $LIBINTL"
+ 
+@@ -193,11 +172,10 @@ if test "$enable_shared" = "yes"; then
+   case "${host}" in
+     *-*-cygwin*)
+       SHARED_LDFLAGS="-no-undefined"
+-      SHARED_LIBADD="-L`pwd`/../bfd -lbfd -L`pwd`/../libiberty -liberty $SHARED_LIBADD"
++      SHARED_LIBADD="-lbfd -liberty $SHARED_LIBADD"
+       ;;
+     *)
+-      SHARED_LIBADD="../bfd/libbfd.la ${SHARED_LIBADD}"
+-      SHARED_DEPENDENCIES="../bfd/libbfd.la"
++      SHARED_LIBADD="-lbfd ${SHARED_LIBADD}"
+       ;;
+   esac
+ 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3ea42ee422999
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,240 @@
+let
+  execFormatIsELF = platform: platform.parsed.kernel.execFormat.name == "elf";
+in
+
+{ stdenv
+, autoreconfHook
+, autoconf269, automake, libtool
+, bison
+, buildPackages
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchurl
+, flex
+, gettext
+, lib
+, noSysDirs
+, perl
+, substitute
+, texinfo
+, zlib
+
+, enableGold ? execFormatIsELF stdenv.targetPlatform
+, enableShared ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic
+  # WARN: Enabling all targets increases output size to a multiple.
+, withAllTargets ? false
+}:
+
+# WARN: configure silently disables ld.gold if it's unsupported, so we need to
+# make sure that intent matches result ourselves.
+assert enableGold -> execFormatIsELF stdenv.targetPlatform;
+
+
+let
+  inherit (stdenv) buildPlatform hostPlatform targetPlatform;
+
+  version = "2.38";
+
+  srcs = {
+    normal = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://gnu/binutils/binutils-${version}.tar.bz2";
+      sha256 = "sha256-Bw7HHPB3pqWOC5WfBaCaNQFTeMLYpR6Q866r/jBZDvg=";
+    };
+    vc4-none = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "itszor";
+      repo = "binutils-vc4";
+      rev = "708acc851880dbeda1dd18aca4fd0a95b2573b36";
+      sha256 = "1kdrz6fki55lm15rwwamn74fnqpy0zlafsida2zymk76n3656c63";
+    };
+  };
+
+  #INFO: The targetPrefix prepended to binary names to allow multiple binuntils
+  # on the PATH to both be usable.
+  targetPrefix = lib.optionalString (targetPlatform != hostPlatform) "${targetPlatform.config}-";
+in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = targetPrefix + "binutils";
+  inherit version;
+
+  # HACK: Ensure that we preserve source from bootstrap binutils to not rebuild LLVM
+  src = stdenv.__bootPackages.binutils-unwrapped_2_38.src
+    or srcs.${targetPlatform.system}
+    or srcs.normal;
+
+  # WARN: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus cannot use
+  # fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or cgit) that are
+  # needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as files.
+  patches = [
+    # Make binutils output deterministic by default.
+    ./deterministic.patch
+
+
+    # Breaks nm BSD flag detection
+    ./0001-Revert-libtool.m4-fix-nm-BSD-flag-detection.patch
+
+    # Required for newer macos versions
+    ./0001-libtool.m4-update-macos-version-detection-block.patch
+
+    # For some reason bfd ld doesn't search DT_RPATH when cross-compiling. It's
+    # not clear why this behavior was decided upon but it has the unfortunate
+    # consequence that the linker will fail to find transitive dependencies of
+    # shared objects when cross-compiling. Consequently, we are forced to
+    # override this behavior, forcing ld to search DT_RPATH even when
+    # cross-compiling.
+    ./always-search-rpath.patch
+
+    # Fixed in 2.39
+    # https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28885
+    # https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=patch;h=99852365513266afdd793289813e8e565186c9e6
+    # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/170946
+    ./deterministic-temp-prefixes.patch
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optional targetPlatform.isiOS ./support-ios.patch
+  # This patch was suggested by Nick Clifton to fix
+  # https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16177
+  # It can be removed when that 7-year-old bug is closed.
+  # This binutils bug causes GHC to emit broken binaries on armv7, and indeed
+  # GHC will refuse to compile with a binutils suffering from it. See this
+  # comment for more information:
+  # https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/4210#note_78333
+  ++ lib.optional (targetPlatform.isAarch32 && hostPlatform.system != targetPlatform.system) ./R_ARM_COPY.patch
+  ++ lib.optional stdenv.targetPlatform.isWindows ./windres-locate-gcc.patch
+  ++ lib.optional stdenv.targetPlatform.isMips64n64
+     # this patch is from debian:
+     # https://sources.debian.org/data/main/b/binutils/2.38-3/debian/patches/mips64-default-n64.diff
+     (if stdenv.targetPlatform.isMusl
+      then substitute { src = ./mips64-default-n64.patch; replacements = [ "--replace" "gnuabi64" "muslabi64" ]; }
+      else ./mips64-default-n64.patch)
+  # On PowerPC, when generating assembly code, GCC generates a `.machine`
+  # custom instruction which instructs the assembler to generate code for this
+  # machine. However, some GCC versions generate the wrong one, or make it
+  # too strict, which leads to some confusing "unrecognized opcode: wrtee"
+  # or "unrecognized opcode: eieio" errors.
+  #
+  # To remove when binutils 2.39 is released.
+  #
+  # Upstream commit:
+  # https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=cebc89b9328eab994f6b0314c263f94e7949a553
+  ++ lib.optional stdenv.targetPlatform.isPower ./ppc-make-machine-less-strict.patch
+  ;
+
+  outputs = [ "out" "info" "man" ];
+
+  strictDeps = true;
+  depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    bison
+    perl
+    texinfo
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optionals targetPlatform.isiOS [ autoreconfHook ]
+  ++ lib.optionals buildPlatform.isDarwin [ autoconf269 automake gettext libtool ]
+  ++ lib.optionals targetPlatform.isVc4 [ flex ]
+  ;
+
+  buildInputs = [ zlib gettext ];
+
+  inherit noSysDirs;
+
+  preConfigure = (lib.optionalString buildPlatform.isDarwin ''
+    for i in */configure.ac; do
+      pushd "$(dirname "$i")"
+      echo "Running autoreconf in $PWD"
+      # autoreconf doesn't work, don't know why
+      # autoreconf ''${autoreconfFlags:---install --force --verbose}
+      autoconf
+      popd
+    done
+  '') + ''
+    # Clear the default library search path.
+    if test "$noSysDirs" = "1"; then
+        echo 'NATIVE_LIB_DIRS=' >> ld/configure.tgt
+    fi
+
+    # Use symlinks instead of hard links to save space ("strip" in the
+    # fixup phase strips each hard link separately).
+    for i in binutils/Makefile.in gas/Makefile.in ld/Makefile.in gold/Makefile.in; do
+        sed -i "$i" -e 's|ln |ln -s |'
+    done
+  '';
+
+  # As binutils takes part in the stdenv building, we don't want references
+  # to the bootstrap-tools libgcc (as uses to happen on arm/mips)
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE =
+    if hostPlatform.isDarwin
+    then "-Wno-string-plus-int -Wno-deprecated-declarations"
+    else "-static-libgcc";
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" "pie" ];
+
+  configurePlatforms = [ "build" "host" "target" ];
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-64-bit-bfd"
+    "--with-system-zlib"
+
+    "--enable-deterministic-archives"
+    "--disable-werror"
+    "--enable-fix-loongson2f-nop"
+
+    # Turn on --enable-new-dtags by default to make the linker set
+    # RUNPATH instead of RPATH on binaries.  This is important because
+    # RUNPATH can be overriden using LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime.
+    "--enable-new-dtags"
+
+    # force target prefix. Some versions of binutils will make it empty if
+    # `--host` and `--target` are too close, even if Nixpkgs thinks the
+    # platforms are different (e.g. because not all the info makes the
+    # `config`). Other versions of binutils will always prefix if `--target` is
+    # passed, even if `--host` and `--target` are the same. The easiest thing
+    # for us to do is not leave it to chance, and force the program prefix to be
+    # what we want it to be.
+    "--program-prefix=${targetPrefix}"
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optionals withAllTargets [ "--enable-targets=all" ]
+  ++ lib.optionals enableGold [ "--enable-gold" "--enable-plugins" ]
+  ++ (if enableShared
+      then [ "--enable-shared" "--disable-static" ]
+      else [ "--disable-shared" "--enable-static" ])
+  ;
+
+  # Fails
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  # Remove on next bump. It's a vestige of past conditional. Stays here to avoid
+  # mass rebuild.
+  postFixup = "";
+
+  # Break dependency on pkgsBuildBuild.gcc when building a cross-binutils
+  stripDebugList = if stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.targetPlatform then "bin lib ${stdenv.hostPlatform.config}" else null;
+
+  # INFO: Otherwise it fails with:
+  # `./sanity.sh: line 36: $out/bin/size: not found`
+  doInstallCheck = (buildPlatform == hostPlatform) && (hostPlatform == targetPlatform);
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  passthru = {
+    inherit targetPrefix;
+    hasGold = enableGold;
+    isGNU = true;
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Tools for manipulating binaries (linker, assembler, etc.)";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools.  The main
+      ones are `ld' (the GNU linker) and `as' (the GNU assembler).
+      They also include the BFD (Binary File Descriptor) library,
+      `gprof', `nm', `strip', etc.
+    '';
+    homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ericson2314 lovesegfault ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+
+    # INFO: Give binutils a lower priority than gcc-wrapper to prevent a
+    # collision due to the ld/as wrappers/symlinks in the latter.
+    priority = 10;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/deterministic-temp-prefixes.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/deterministic-temp-prefixes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3c27340b9c042
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/deterministic-temp-prefixes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 99852365513266afdd793289813e8e565186c9e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:39:49 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] dlltool: Use the output name as basis for deterministic temp
+ prefixes
+
+        PR 28885
+        * dlltool.c (main): use imp_name rather than dll_name when
+        generating a temporary file name.
+---
+ binutils/ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++
+ binutils/dlltool.c | 7 ++++---
+ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/binutils/dlltool.c b/binutils/dlltool.c
+index d95bf3f5470..89871510b45 100644
+--- a/binutils/dlltool.c
++++ b/binutils/dlltool.c
+@@ -3992,10 +3992,11 @@ main (int ac, char **av)
+   if (tmp_prefix == NULL)
+     {
+       /* If possible use a deterministic prefix.  */
+-      if (dll_name)
++      if (imp_name || delayimp_name)
+         {
+-          tmp_prefix = xmalloc (strlen (dll_name) + 2);
+-          sprintf (tmp_prefix, "%s_", dll_name);
++          const char *input = imp_name ? imp_name : delayimp_name;
++          tmp_prefix = xmalloc (strlen (input) + 2);
++          sprintf (tmp_prefix, "%s_", input);
+           for (i = 0; tmp_prefix[i]; i++)
+             if (!ISALNUM (tmp_prefix[i]))
+               tmp_prefix[i] = '_';
+-- 
+2.31.1
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/deterministic.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/deterministic.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..736e0aca6ce1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/deterministic.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ur orig/binutils-2.23.1/ld/ldlang.c binutils-2.23.1/ld/ldlang.c
+--- orig/ld/ldlang.c
++++ new/ld/ldlang.c
+@@ -3095,6 +3095,8 @@
+                           ldfile_output_machine))
+     einfo (_("%P%F:%s: can not set architecture: %E\n"), name);
+ 
++  link_info.output_bfd->flags |= BFD_DETERMINISTIC_OUTPUT;
++
+   link_info.hash = bfd_link_hash_table_create (link_info.output_bfd);
+   if (link_info.hash == NULL)
+     einfo (_("%P%F: can not create hash table: %E\n"));
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/libbfd.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/libbfd.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..feac15b512f9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/libbfd.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+{ lib, stdenv
+, fetchpatch, gnu-config, autoreconfHook, bison, binutils-unwrapped_2_38
+, libiberty, libintl, zlib
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "libbfd";
+  inherit (binutils-unwrapped_2_38) version src;
+
+  outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
+
+  patches = binutils-unwrapped_2_38.patches ++ [
+    ./build-components-separately.patch
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mxe/mxe/e1d4c144ee1994f70f86cf7fd8168fe69bd629c6/src/bfd-1-disable-subdir-doc.patch";
+      sha256 = "0pzb3i74d1r7lhjan376h59a7kirw15j7swwm8pz3zy9lkdqkj6q";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  # We just want to build libbfd
+  postPatch = ''
+    cd bfd
+  '';
+
+  postAutoreconf = ''
+    echo "Updating config.guess and config.sub from ${gnu-config}"
+    cp -f ${gnu-config}/config.{guess,sub} ../
+  '';
+
+  # We update these ourselves
+  dontUpdateAutotoolsGnuConfigScripts = true;
+
+  strictDeps = true;
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook bison ];
+  buildInputs = [ libiberty zlib ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ libintl ];
+
+  configurePlatforms = [ "build" "host" ];
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-targets=all" "--enable-64-bit-bfd"
+    "--enable-install-libbfd"
+    "--with-system-zlib"
+  ] ++ lib.optional (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic) "--enable-shared";
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A library for manipulating containers of machine code";
+    longDescription = ''
+      BFD is a library which provides a single interface to read and write
+      object files, executables, archive files, and core files in any format.
+      It is associated with GNU Binutils, and elsewhere often distributed with
+      it.
+    '';
+    homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ericson2314 ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/libopcodes.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/libopcodes.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..16b3695626d76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/libopcodes.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, buildPackages
+, autoreconfHook, bison, binutils-unwrapped_2_38
+, libiberty, libbfd_2_38
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "libopcodes";
+  inherit (binutils-unwrapped_2_38) version src;
+
+  outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
+
+  patches = binutils-unwrapped_2_38.patches ++ [
+    ./build-components-separately.patch
+  ];
+
+  # We just want to build libopcodes
+  postPatch = ''
+    cd opcodes
+    find . ../include/opcode -type f -exec sed {} -i -e 's/"bfd.h"/<bfd.h>/' \;
+  '';
+
+  depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook bison ];
+  buildInputs = [ libiberty ];
+  # dis-asm.h includes bfd.h
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ libbfd_2_38 ];
+
+  configurePlatforms = [ "build" "host" ];
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-targets=all" "--enable-64-bit-bfd"
+    "--enable-install-libbfd"
+    "--enable-shared"
+  ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A library from binutils for manipulating machine code";
+    homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ericson2314 ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/mips64-default-n64.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/mips64-default-n64.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..00581279f85e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/mips64-default-n64.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+--- a/bfd/config.bfd
++++ b/bfd/config.bfd
+@@ -927,11 +927,21 @@ case "${targ}" in
+     targ_defvec=mips_elf32_be_vec
+     targ_selvecs="mips_elf32_le_vec mips_elf64_be_vec mips_elf64_le_vec mips_ecoff_be_vec mips_ecoff_le_vec"
+     ;;
+-  mips64*el-*-linux*)
++  mips*64*el-*-linux*-gnuabi64)
++    targ_defvec=mips_elf64_trad_le_vec
++    targ_selvecs="mips_elf32_ntrad_be_vec mips_elf32_ntrad_le_vec mips_elf32_trad_be_vec mips_elf32_trad_le_vec mips_elf64_trad_be_vec"
++    want64=true
++    ;;
++  mips*64*-*-linux*-gnuabi64)
++    targ_defvec=mips_elf64_trad_be_vec
++    targ_selvecs="mips_elf32_ntrad_be_vec mips_elf32_ntrad_le_vec mips_elf32_trad_be_vec mips_elf32_trad_le_vec mips_elf64_trad_le_vec"
++    want64=true
++    ;;
++  mips*64*el-*-linux*)
+     targ_defvec=mips_elf32_ntrad_le_vec
+     targ_selvecs="mips_elf32_ntrad_be_vec mips_elf32_trad_le_vec mips_elf32_trad_be_vec mips_elf64_trad_le_vec mips_elf64_trad_be_vec"
+     ;;
+-  mips64*-*-linux*)
++  mips*64*-*-linux*)
+     targ_defvec=mips_elf32_ntrad_be_vec
+     targ_selvecs="mips_elf32_ntrad_le_vec mips_elf32_trad_be_vec mips_elf32_trad_le_vec mips_elf64_trad_be_vec mips_elf64_trad_le_vec"
+     ;;
+--- a/binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/mips/mips-note-2-n32.d
++++ b/binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/mips/mips-note-2-n32.d
+@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
+ #PROG: objcopy
++#as: -n32
+ #readelf: --notes --wide
+ #objcopy: --merge-notes
+ #name: MIPS merge notes section (n32)
+--- a/gas/configure
++++ b/gas/configure
+@@ -12167,6 +12167,9 @@ _ACEOF
+ 	esac
+ 	# Decide which ABI to target by default.
+ 	case ${target} in
++	  mips*64*-linux-gnuabi64)
++	    mips_default_abi=N64_ABI
++	    ;;
+ 	  mips64*-linux* | mips-sgi-irix6* | mips64*-freebsd* \
+ 	  | mips64*-kfreebsd*-gnu | mips64*-ps2-elf*)
+ 	    mips_default_abi=N32_ABI
+--- a/gas/configure.ac
++++ b/gas/configure.ac
+@@ -384,6 +384,9 @@ changequote([,])dnl
+ 	esac
+ 	# Decide which ABI to target by default.
+ 	case ${target} in
++	  mips*64*-linux-gnuabi64)
++	    mips_default_abi=N64_ABI
++	    ;;
+ 	  mips64*-linux* | mips-sgi-irix6* | mips64*-freebsd* \
+ 	  | mips64*-kfreebsd*-gnu | mips64*-ps2-elf*)
+ 	    mips_default_abi=N32_ABI
+--- a/ld/configure.tgt
++++ b/ld/configure.tgt
+@@ -543,11 +543,19 @@ mips*-*-vxworks*)	targ_emul=elf32ebmipvx
+ 			;;
+ mips*-*-windiss)	targ_emul=elf32mipswindiss
+ 			;;
+-mips64*el-*-linux-*)	targ_emul=elf32ltsmipn32
++mips*64*el-*-linux-gnuabi64)	targ_emul=elf64ltsmip
++			targ_extra_emuls="elf32btsmipn32 elf32ltsmipn32 elf32ltsmip elf32btsmip elf64btsmip"
++			targ_extra_libpath=$targ_extra_emuls
++			;;
++mips*64*el-*-linux-*)	targ_emul=elf32ltsmipn32
+ 			targ_extra_emuls="elf32btsmipn32 elf32ltsmip elf32btsmip elf64ltsmip elf64btsmip"
+ 			targ_extra_libpath=$targ_extra_emuls
+ 			;;
+-mips64*-*-linux-*)	targ_emul=elf32btsmipn32
++mips*64*-*-linux-gnuabi64)	targ_emul=elf64btsmip
++			targ_extra_emuls="elf32btsmipn32 elf32ltsmipn32 elf32btsmip elf32ltsmip elf64ltsmip"
++			targ_extra_libpath=$targ_extra_emuls
++			;;
++mips*64*-*-linux-*)	targ_emul=elf32btsmipn32
+ 			targ_extra_emuls="elf32ltsmipn32 elf32btsmip elf32ltsmip elf64btsmip elf64ltsmip"
+ 			targ_extra_libpath=$targ_extra_emuls
+ 			;;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/ppc-make-machine-less-strict.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/ppc-make-machine-less-strict.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c2452414fc7d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/ppc-make-machine-less-strict.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+From cebc89b9328eab994f6b0314c263f94e7949a553 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:58:57 +1030
+Subject: [PATCH] binutils 2.38 vs. ppc32 linux kernel
+
+Commit b25f942e18d6 made .machine more strict.  Weaken it again.
+
+	* config/tc-ppc.c (ppc_machine): Treat an early .machine specially,
+	keeping sticky options to work around gcc bugs.
+---
+ gas/config/tc-ppc.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/gas/config/tc-ppc.c b/gas/config/tc-ppc.c
+index 054f9c72161..89bc7d3f9b9 100644
+--- a/gas/config/tc-ppc.c
++++ b/gas/config/tc-ppc.c
+@@ -5965,7 +5965,30 @@ ppc_machine (int ignore ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
+ 	     options do not count as a new machine, instead they add
+ 	     to currently selected opcodes.  */
+ 	  ppc_cpu_t machine_sticky = 0;
+-	  new_cpu = ppc_parse_cpu (ppc_cpu, &machine_sticky, cpu_string);
++	  /* Unfortunately, some versions of gcc emit a .machine
++	     directive very near the start of the compiler's assembly
++	     output file.  This is bad because it overrides user -Wa
++	     cpu selection.  Worse, there are versions of gcc that
++	     emit the *wrong* cpu, not even respecting the -mcpu given
++	     to gcc.  See gcc pr101393.  And to compound the problem,
++	     as of 20220222 gcc doesn't pass the correct cpu option to
++	     gas on the command line.  See gcc pr59828.  Hack around
++	     this by keeping sticky options for an early .machine.  */
++	  asection *sec;
++	  for (sec = stdoutput->sections; sec != NULL; sec = sec->next)
++	    {
++	      segment_info_type *info = seg_info (sec);
++	      /* Are the frags for this section perturbed from their
++		 initial state?  Even .align will count here.  */
++	      if (info != NULL
++		  && (info->frchainP->frch_root != info->frchainP->frch_last
++		      || info->frchainP->frch_root->fr_type != rs_fill
++		      || info->frchainP->frch_root->fr_fix != 0))
++		break;
++	    }
++	  new_cpu = ppc_parse_cpu (ppc_cpu,
++				   sec == NULL ? &sticky : &machine_sticky,
++				   cpu_string);
+ 	  if (new_cpu != 0)
+ 	    ppc_cpu = new_cpu;
+ 	  else
+-- 
+2.31.1
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/support-ios.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/support-ios.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..74e56d130ed51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/support-ios.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+diff --git a/bfd/config.bfd b/bfd/config.bfd
+index f04a993f06..1e24a9d030 100644
+--- a/bfd/config.bfd
++++ b/bfd/config.bfd
+@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ case "${targ}" in
+ 
+ # START OF targmatch.h
+ #ifdef BFD64
+-  aarch64-*-darwin*)
++  aarch64-*-darwin* | aarch64-*-ios*)
+     targ_defvec=aarch64_mach_o_vec
+     targ_selvecs="arm_mach_o_vec mach_o_le_vec mach_o_be_vec mach_o_fat_vec"
+     targ_archs="$targ_archs bfd_i386_arch bfd_powerpc_arch bfd_rs6000_arch"
+@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ case "${targ}" in
+     targ_selvecs=arc_elf32_be_vec
+     ;;
+ 
+-  arm-*-darwin*)
++  arm-*-darwin* | arm-*-ios*)
+     targ_defvec=arm_mach_o_vec
+     targ_selvecs="mach_o_le_vec mach_o_be_vec mach_o_fat_vec"
+     targ_archs="$targ_archs bfd_i386_arch bfd_powerpc_arch bfd_rs6000_arch"
+@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ case "${targ}" in
+   i[3-7]86-*-aix*)
+     targ_defvec=i386_coff_vec
+     ;;
+-  i[3-7]86-*-darwin* | i[3-7]86-*-macos10* | i[3-7]86-*-rhapsody*)
++  i[3-7]86-*-darwin* | i[3-7]86-*-ios* | i[3-7]86-*-macos10* | i[3-7]86-*-rhapsody*)
+     targ_defvec=i386_mach_o_vec
+     targ_selvecs="mach_o_le_vec mach_o_be_vec mach_o_fat_vec pef_vec pef_xlib_vec sym_vec"
+     targ64_selvecs=x86_64_mach_o_vec
+@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ case "${targ}" in
+     targ_defvec=x86_64_elf64_cloudabi_vec
+     want64=true
+     ;;
+-  x86_64-*-darwin*)
++  x86_64-*-darwin* | x86_64-*-ios*)
+     targ_defvec=x86_64_mach_o_vec
+     targ_selvecs="i386_mach_o_vec mach_o_le_vec mach_o_be_vec mach_o_fat_vec pef_vec pef_xlib_vec sym_vec"
+     targ_archs="$targ_archs bfd_powerpc_arch bfd_rs6000_arch"
+@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ case "${targ}" in
+     targ_selvecs="powerpc_elf32_le_vec powerpc_boot_vec"
+     targ64_selvecs="powerpc_elf64_vec powerpc_elf64_le_vec"
+     ;;
+-  powerpc-*-darwin* | powerpc-*-macos10* | powerpc-*-rhapsody*)
++  powerpc-*-darwin* | powerpc-*-ios* | powerpc-*-macos10* | powerpc-*-rhapsody*)
+     targ_defvec=mach_o_be_vec
+     targ_selvecs="mach_o_be_vec mach_o_le_vec mach_o_fat_vec pef_vec pef_xlib_vec sym_vec"
+     targ_archs="$targ_archs bfd_i386_arch"
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index aae94501e4..2cceb4dad4 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ if test x$enable_libgomp = x ; then
+ 	;;
+     *-*-solaris2* | *-*-hpux11*)
+ 	;;
+-    *-*-darwin* | *-*-aix*)
++    *-*-darwin* | *-*-ios* | *-*-aix*)
+ 	;;
+     nvptx*-*-*)
+ 	;;
+@@ -700,13 +700,13 @@ esac
+ 
+ # Disable libffi for some systems.
+ case "${target}" in
+-  powerpc-*-darwin*)
++  powerpc-*-darwin* | powerpc-*-ios*)
+     ;;
+-  i[[3456789]]86-*-darwin*)
++  i[[3456789]]86-*-darwin* | i[[3456789]]86-*-ios*)
+     ;;
+-  x86_64-*-darwin[[912]]*)
++  x86_64-*-darwin[[912]]* | x86_64-*-ios[[912]]*)
+     ;;
+-  *-*-darwin*)
++  *-*-darwin* | *-*-ios*)
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs target-libffi"
+     ;;
+   *-*-netware*)
+@@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ esac
+ # Disable the go frontend on systems where it is known to not work. Please keep
+ # this in sync with contrib/config-list.mk.
+ case "${target}" in
+-*-*-darwin* | *-*-cygwin* | *-*-mingw*)
++*-*-darwin* | *-*-ios* | *-*-cygwin* | *-*-mingw*)
+     unsupported_languages="$unsupported_languages go"
+     ;;
+ esac
+@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ esac
+ # For testing, you can easily override this with --enable-libgo.
+ if test x$enable_libgo = x; then
+     case "${target}" in
+-    *-*-darwin*)
++    *-*-darwin* | *-*-ios*)
+ 	# PR 46986
+ 	noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs target-libgo"
+ 	;;
+@@ -916,27 +916,27 @@ esac
+ case "${target}" in
+   *-*-chorusos)
+     ;;
+-  aarch64-*-darwin*)
++  aarch64-*-darwin* | aarch64-*-ios*)
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gas gdb gprof"
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs sim target-rda"
+     ;;
+-  arm-*-darwin*)
++  arm-*-darwin* | arm-*-ios*)
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gas gdb gprof"
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs sim target-rda"
+     ;;
+-  powerpc-*-darwin*)
++  powerpc-*-darwin* | powerpc-*-ios*)
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gas gdb gprof"
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs sim target-rda"
+     ;;
+-  i[[3456789]]86-*-darwin*)
++  i[[3456789]]86-*-darwin* | i[[3456789]]86-*-ios*)
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gprof"
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs sim target-rda"
+     ;;
+-  x86_64-*-darwin[[912]]*)
++  x86_64-*-darwin[[912]]* | x86_64-*-ios[[912]]*)
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gas gprof"
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs sim target-rda"
+     ;;
+-  *-*-darwin*)
++  *-*-darwin* | *-*-ios*)
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gas gdb gprof"
+     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs sim target-rda"
+     ;;
+@@ -1226,7 +1226,7 @@ case "${host}" in
+   hppa*-*)	
+     host_makefile_frag="config/mh-pa"
+     ;;
+-  *-*-darwin*)
++  *-*-darwin* | *-*-ios*)
+     host_makefile_frag="config/mh-darwin"
+     ;;
+   powerpc-*-aix*)
+@@ -1697,7 +1697,7 @@ ACX_ELF_TARGET_IFELSE([# ELF platforms build the lto-plugin always.
+   build_lto_plugin=yes
+ ],[if test x"$default_enable_lto" = x"yes" ; then
+     case $target in
+-      *-apple-darwin[[912]]* | *-cygwin* | *-mingw* | *djgpp*) ;;
++      *-apple-darwin[[912]]* | *-apple-ios[[912]]* | *-cygwin* | *-mingw* | *djgpp*) ;;
+       # On other non-ELF platforms, LTO has yet to be validated.
+       *) enable_lto=no ;;
+     esac
+@@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ ACX_ELF_TARGET_IFELSE([# ELF platforms build the lto-plugin always.
+   # warn during gcc/ subconfigure; unless you're bootstrapping with
+   # -flto it won't be needed until after installation anyway.
+     case $target in
+-      *-cygwin* | *-mingw* | *-apple-darwin* | *djgpp*) ;;
++      *-cygwin* | *-mingw* | *-apple-darwin* | *-apple-ios* | *djgpp*) ;;
+       *) if test x"$enable_lto" = x"yes"; then
+ 	AC_MSG_ERROR([LTO support is not enabled for this target.])
+         fi
+@@ -2590,7 +2590,7 @@ rm -f conftest*
+ # Decide which environment variable is used to find dynamic libraries.
+ case "${host}" in
+   *-*-hpux*) RPATH_ENVVAR=SHLIB_PATH ;;
+-  *-*-darwin*) RPATH_ENVVAR=DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ;;
++  *-*-darwin* | *-*-ios* ) RPATH_ENVVAR=DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ;;
+   *-*-mingw* | *-*-cygwin ) RPATH_ENVVAR=PATH ;;
+   *) RPATH_ENVVAR=LD_LIBRARY_PATH ;;
+ esac
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/windres-locate-gcc.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/windres-locate-gcc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..721667c62cecc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/2.38/windres-locate-gcc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+diff --git a/binutils/resrc.c b/binutils/resrc.c
+index a875c3a4..0411d047 100644
+--- a/binutils/resrc.c
++++ b/binutils/resrc.c
+@@ -521,7 +521,13 @@ read_rc_file (const char *filename, const char *preprocessor,
+ 
+       cpp_pipe = 0;
+ 
+-      if (dash)
++      /* Nixpkgs specific : look first at the prefixed path
++        ( there should be no gcc in the binutils folder ) */
++      if (slash && dash) {
++        cpp_pipe = look_for_default(cmd, slash + 1, dash - slash, preprocargs, filename);
++      }
++
++      if (dash && ! cpp_pipe)
+ 	{
+ 	  /* First, try looking for a prefixed gcc in the windres
+ 	     directory, with the same prefix as windres */