mips-harvard-os161-binutils
The source is a tarball from the official project domain (os161.eecs.harvard.edu), which is plausibly the legitimate upstream for this academic toolchain; building from project-owned infrastructure, even on a non-whitelisted host, is normal AUR packaging with low risk.
Triggered rules
llm_review
The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The source is a tarball from the official project domain (os161.eecs.harvard.edu), which is plausibly the legitimate upstream for this academic toolchain; building from project-owned infrastructure, even on a non-whitelisted host, is normal AUR packaging with low risk.
1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
source_untrusted_domain
One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).
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PKGBUILD:15
source=(http://os161.eecs.harvard.edu/download/binutils-${_pkgver}.tar.gz)
PKGBUILD
1 offending line(s) highlighted# Maintainer: Geronimo Bareiro <gero dot bare at gmail dot com>
_target="mips-harvard-os161"
pkgname=${_target}-binutils
_pkgver=2.24+os161-2.1
pkgver=${_pkgver/os161-/os161_}
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A set of programs to assemble and manipulate binary and object files for ${_target} arquitecture. This is part of toolset for the course os161 from Harvard."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://os161.eecs.harvard.edu/"
license=('GPL')
groups=('mips-harvard-os161-toolchain')
depends=('glibc>=2.24' 'zlib')
options=('staticlibs' '!distcc' '!ccache')
source=(http://os161.eecs.harvard.edu/download/binutils-${_pkgver}.tar.gz)
md5sums=('89fb5251c8fac189551f30550e6c4d0b')
prepare() {
cd binutils-${_pkgver}
sed -i "/ac_cpp=/s/\$CPPFLAGS/\$CPPFLAGS -O2/" libiberty/configure
mkdir ${srcdir}/binutils-build
}
build() {
cd binutils-build
../binutils-${_pkgver}/configure --prefix=/usr \
--program-prefix=${_target}- \
--with-lib-path=/usr/lib/binutils/${_target} \
--with-local-prefix=/usr/lib/${_target} \
--with-sysroot=/usr/${_target} \
--target=${_target} --host=${CHOST} --build=${CHOST} \
--disable-nls --nfp \
--disable-shared --disable-threads \
--disable-werror
make configure-host
make tooldir=/usr
}
check() {
cd binutils-build
# unset LDFLAGS as testsuite makes assumptions about which ones are active
# ignore failures in gold testsuite...
make -k LDFLAGS="" check || true
}
package() {
cd binutils-build
make prefix=${pkgdir}/usr tooldir=${pkgdir}/usr install
# Remove unwanted files
rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share
rm -f ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/{ar,as,ld,nm,objdump,ranlib,readelf,strip,objcopy}
}
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| Scanned at (UTC) | Severity | Rules |
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| 2026-09-17 00:27:14 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-16 00:03:17 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-15 00:25:31 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 00:27:57 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-13 00:19:54 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-12 00:25:17 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-11 00:19:22 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-10 00:22:44 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-09 00:04:09 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-08 00:18:08 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-07 00:30:15 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-06 00:17:06 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-05 00:16:27 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-04 00:03:13 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-03 00:15:47 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-02 00:02:31 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-01 00:11:19 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 00:19:57 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-08-30 00:04:14 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-08-29 00:29:17 | Low | 2 |