Issue with v2.25 on OS/2

[Paul Smedley]

Hi All,

I've been maintaining a port of binutils to the OS/2 platform for some years.

I updated my local source to v2.25 yesterday, and an issue with ar has 
cropped up.

Previous versions of binutils had a symbol header of __.SYMDEF - with v2.25 I 
get a / instead

Reading the source I see that:
 Symbol table (must be first):
 "__.SYMDEF       " - Symbol table, Berkeley style, produced by ranlib.
 "/               " - Symbol table, system 5 style.


So for some reason, the OS/2 build has changed to use system 5 style instead 
of the required Berkeley style.

Can anyone help me understand where it is defined which kind of symbol table 
is used for a given platform?

OS/2 uses aout object format fwiw.

Cheers,

Paul