binutils: update to 2.44

release notes:
- https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2025-February/139195.html

In a change to our previous practice, in this release the
binutils-2.44.tar tarball does not contain the sources for the gold
linker.  This is because the gold linker is now deprecated and will
eventually be removed unless volunteers step forward and offer to
continue development and maintenance.

The gold sources can be found in the binutils-with-gold-2.44.tar
tarballs.  Going forward, odd numbered releases of the binutils (2.45,
2.47, etc) will just have the binutils.2.xx.tar tarballs, whilst even
numbered releases will have both the binutils-2.xx.tar and the
binutils-with-gold-2.xx.tar tarballs.  Eventually this will stop and
gold will be dropped altogether.

packages/devel/binutils/package.mk

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2018-present Team LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv)
 
 PKG_NAME="binutils"
-PKG_VERSION="2.43.1"
-PKG_SHA256="13f74202a3c4c51118b797a39ea4200d3f6cfbe224da6d1d95bb938480132dfd"
+PKG_VERSION="2.44"
+PKG_SHA256="67be9198476cc37436e2801de649f4ad80bf0d02430d86aff63c6b59b6e23987"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/"
-PKG_URL="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
+PKG_URL="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/${PKG_NAME}-with-gold-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="ccache:host bison:host flex:host linux:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib binutils:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A GNU collection of binary utilities."

packages/devel/binutils/patches/binutils-01-warn-for-uses-of-system-directories-when-link.patch

@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Subject: [PATCH 09/13] warn for uses of system directories when cross linking
 
 --- a/ld/ldfile.c
 +++ b/ld/ldfile.c
-@@ -103,6 +103,17 @@ ldfile_add_library_path (const char *nam
+@@ -314,6 +314,17 @@ ldfile_add_library_path (const char *nam
    if (!cmdline && config.only_cmd_line_lib_dirs)
-     return NULL;
+     return;
  
 +  /* skip those directories when linking */
 +  if ((!strncmp (name, "/lib", 4)) ||
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Subject: [PATCH 09/13] warn for uses of system directories when cross linking
 +  {
 +    einfo (_("%P: warning: library search path \"%s\" is unsafe for "
 +             "cross-compilation, ignore it\n"), name);
-+    return NULL;
++    return;
 +  }
 +
    new_dirs = (search_dirs_type *) xmalloc (sizeof (search_dirs_type));