objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink and relocatable files

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 07 July 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 05:35:18AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > perhaps objcopy should reject --add-gnu-debuglink requests for ET_REL
> > objects ?
>
> No, I've seen people use this on kernel modules.

that makes sense ...

then i'd propose having the section discarded by default since any debug file 
linked to in a relocatable object file will not match the final linked 
object, and if you link multiple .o's which all contain their 
own .gnu_debuglink section, the final linked ELF will have those sections 
merged producing even more useless information in the final ELF.

patch attached
-mike
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