Update MinGW Binutils to the latest version on Stable

[awaken466]

Current version of MinGW Binutils is 2.26, latest is 2.37

[nikic]

Is this on current nightly (that is after #100178)?

[ChrisDenton]

I'm seeing 2.38 in the latest builds (and mingw at 12.2.0).

[awaken466]

I'm seeing 2.38 in the latest builds (and mingw at 12.2.0).

check your environment path, maybe there some other mingw, rust uses mingw from environment variable

[ChrisDenton]

I was speaking of nightly. On current stable and beta it's 2.27. I think it's unlikely that newer tools will be backported to stable unless there's a specific problem that makes it a priority.

[mati865]

We shouldn't backport that upgrade, it's too risky.
The upgrade has broke raw-dylib in some cases #107752 and who knows what else.

[riverar]

@mati865 I don't think #107752 means much for this issue. The version of dlltool used in stable (2.26) uses a temporary prefix of getpid() (source) which isn't ideal given pid reuse is possible.

[jyn514]

#100178 landed in 1.69, which will be stable in 12 days. I feel pretty confident a stable backport isn't warranted given the risk and the fact 1.69 is releasing so soon.

[mati865]

It's not exactly the latest version but it's fairly recent (2.38 IIRC).