plugin handler patch

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jeff,

> If I'm reading this correctly, it's our position that the nm fault this fixes is
> really a problem in the linker plugin.  Right?

Right - this is just a fix to ensure better behaviour in the linker for
when the plugin does go wrong.  

> Meaning there's no significant
> pressure to get this into rawhide.  We can just pick it up via the usual updates
> when they happen.

Well, if we do not fix the lto plugin soon, then importing the binutils patch
will make the linker less likely to seg-fault.  But not by much ... :-)

Cheers
  Nick