[PATCH] Prune BFD warnings for unknown GNU properties

[Nick Clifton]

Hi H.J.

>>> BFD will issue an unknown GNU property warning like

>> So why not recognize that particular property, handle it
>> appropriately, and not warn?

> It is OK for older binutils to ignore these new types.  You just don't
> get new features with older binutils.

True - but presumably you are not planning on backporting this patch
to anything other than the 2.31 branch ?


> And there may be new property types after
> binutils 2.32 is released.

And new failures in the linker testsuite will help to alert us to these
new properties...


> "make check" will fail on binutils 2.32 branch.
> In fact, "make check" fails on binutils 2.31 branch.

So in fact the question is whether we ought to allow tests on *branches*
to ignore unknown properties.  On the grounds that they might be run on
machines with newer versions of glibc (or whatever else is producing
these notes).

So - would it be possible to change your patch so that it is only
enabled if bfd/development.sh is set to false ?

Cheers
  Nick