[RFC] BFD library installation

["Svein E. Seldal" <Svein dot Seldal at solidas dot com>]

Hi,

What is the exact motivation behind...

1) ... not installing libbfd.a per default when compiling cross targets.

I have written a communication application for a specific development 
kit for the tic4x target, dsktools, and to be able to use the generated 
coff files from the GNU tools, I must rely on the BFD library. As 
libbfd.a is not installed per. default I now need to instruct all users 
of this program to install the library manually -- which I feel is 
cumbersome. Thus I wonder why binutils has taken this turn and made it 
this way... I tend to use the BFD library very often, and I dont quire 
see why it was removed.


2) ... installing the bfd library under a machine-specific directory.

I must admit that I quite dont understand the motivation behind this! 
(please enlighten me.) When I compile the binutils on a linux host for 
the tic4x target, it will install the (host) binaries under 
$prefix/tic4x/bin and $prefix/bin. Why not still install the 
target-specific libbfd.a under $prefix/tic4x/lib as it once was? I mean, 
the other tools in $prefix/tic4x/bin is also host-specific executeables, 
right?

All the tools that I have written that needs the libbfd.a library will 
now need a config.sub script lying around to properly discover the 
host-triplet.


Thanks,
Svein