[PATCH] dependency list for static libraries

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 03:31:49PM +0000, Howard Chu wrote:
> Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Hi Howard,
> > 
> >> Whitespace fixes done, attached.
> > 
> > Sorry for the delay in reviewing this patch.  This revised form
> > looks good to me, so I have gone ahead and applied it to the sources.

I now see these failures.

alpha-dec-vms  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
hppa-hp-hpux10  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
i386-bsd  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
i386-msdos  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
ia64-vms  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
ns32k-netbsd  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
ns32k-pc532-mach  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
pdp11-dec-aout  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
powerpc-aix5.1  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
powerpc-aix5.2  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
rs6000-aix4.3.3  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
rs6000-aix5.1  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies
rs6000-aix5.2  +FAIL: ar adding library dependencies

I think these are all targets that default to --disable-plugins.  The
proper fix is to condition all of the added ar.c code on
BFD_SUPPORTS_PLUGINS, including help text and option processing.  And
then of course not run the new tests if --record-libdeps is not a
known ar option.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM