mips-harvard-os161-binutils

maintainer gerito · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged 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

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

MEDIUM source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:15 source=(http://os161.eecs.harvard.edu/download/binutils-${_pkgver}.tar.gz)

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Geronimo Bareiro <gero dot bare at gmail dot com>
    
      2
    
      3_target="mips-harvard-os161"
    
      4pkgname=${_target}-binutils
    
      5_pkgver=2.24+os161-2.1
    
      6pkgver=${_pkgver/os161-/os161_}
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="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."
    
      9arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      10url="http://os161.eecs.harvard.edu/"
    
      11license=('GPL')
    
      12groups=('mips-harvard-os161-toolchain')
    
      13depends=('glibc>=2.24' 'zlib')
    
      14options=('staticlibs' '!distcc' '!ccache')
    
      15source=(http://os161.eecs.harvard.edu/download/binutils-${_pkgver}.tar.gz)
    
      16md5sums=('89fb5251c8fac189551f30550e6c4d0b')
    
      17
    
      18prepare() {
    
      19  cd binutils-${_pkgver}
    
      20
    
      21  sed -i "/ac_cpp=/s/\$CPPFLAGS/\$CPPFLAGS -O2/" libiberty/configure
    
      22
    
      23  mkdir ${srcdir}/binutils-build
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26build() {
    
      27  cd binutils-build
    
      28
    
      29  ../binutils-${_pkgver}/configure --prefix=/usr \
    
      30      --program-prefix=${_target}- \
    
      31      --with-lib-path=/usr/lib/binutils/${_target} \
    
      32      --with-local-prefix=/usr/lib/${_target} \
    
      33      --with-sysroot=/usr/${_target} \
    
      34      --target=${_target} --host=${CHOST} --build=${CHOST} \
    
      35      --disable-nls --nfp \
    
      36      --disable-shared --disable-threads \
    
      37      --disable-werror
    
      38
    
      39  make configure-host
    
      40
    
      41  make tooldir=/usr
    
      42}
    
      43
    
      44check() {
    
      45  cd binutils-build
    
      46  
    
      47  # unset LDFLAGS as testsuite makes assumptions about which ones are active
    
      48  # ignore failures in gold testsuite...
    
      49  make -k LDFLAGS="" check || true
    
      50}
    
      51
    
      52package() {
    
      53  cd binutils-build
    
      54  make prefix=${pkgdir}/usr tooldir=${pkgdir}/usr install
    
      55
    
      56  # Remove unwanted files
    
      57  rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share
    
      58  rm -f ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/{ar,as,ld,nm,objdump,ranlib,readelf,strip,objcopy}
    
      59}
    
      60
    
      61

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