objcopy --redefine-sym

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 12:49:40PM -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> linux objcopy has option --redefine-sym that is useful when
> one is trying link two things together and there are collisions
> [and you have little control over the two things you're trying to
> link together].
> 
> Example: objcopy --redefine-sym=foo=bar libfoo.a
> 
> HJ: Can you send the patch to this list?
> [I didn't see any reference to it in the mailing list archives
> so I'm guessing it hasn't been submitted (recently at least).]

I think I sent it to Ian at the time. I may be wrong on that.
I will try again when I find time.

BTW, my binutils has other goodies. Some are bug fixes which
mainly affect Linux. You can take a look at all those
ChangeLog.linux. Let me know what else you want.


H.J.