Linux compatibility package based on the openSUSE Linux distribution. Please visit http://www.opensuse.org/ for more information about openSUSE Linux. The GNU binutils package contains essential tools to assemble, link and manipulate binary and object files. They are often used with a compiler and additional libraries for building software. It includes the GNU linker, the portable GNU assembler, ar for modifying archives (such as libraries), nm for listing symbols from object files, objdump for displaying object file information, ranlib for generating archive indexes, size for listing section sizes of object files, strings for outputing the printable characters in files, strip for stripping out symbols (like debugging information) from object files, and other tools.