Binutils 2.27 linked statically to libintl

[Eli Zaretskii]

Hi,

I built Binutils 2.27 natively on MS-Windows, using mingw.org's MinGW
tools, and found that the programs are linked statically to libintl
and libiconv, which makes the binaries significantly more fat.
Binutils 2.26, built on the same machine, was linked dynamically to
those libraries.

Digging a little deeper, I see that intl/config.intl says in Binutils
2.27:

  USE_NLS='yes'
  LIBINTL='d:/usr/lib/libintl.a d:/usr/lib/libiconv.a'
  LIBINTL_DEP=''
  INCINTL=''

whereas in 2.26 it said this:

  USE_NLS='yes'
  LIBINTL='-lintl'
  LIBINTL_DEP=''
  INCINTL=''

The same 'configure' command was used in both cases.

Can someone tell what am I doing wrong, and how can I cause the build
to use the dynamic link to shared libraries?  Is it a bug that I
should report to the Binutils Bugzilla?

TIA

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