Always include elf.lo?

[Pedro Alves]

Hi Nick,

Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone object to always compiling elf.lo for BFD, regardless of
>> the target?  I haven't tried it, but looking at the tangled
>> dependencies I think this will mean all of $elf too.
> 
> This does seem to be overkill.   Unless there is a good reason why GDB 
> cannot be modified I would prefer not bloat the non-ELF versions of the 
> BFD library in this way.
> 

Isn't bfd normally used as a static lib?  If so, then only gdb
would suffer the extra "bloat", which is needed anyway.
Perhaps the only real bad effect would added build time.

Daniel, I did try the attached as a workaround before reporting,
but failed to mention it.

Cheers,
Pedro Alves

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