[PATCH] dependency list for static libraries

[Howard Chu]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Nick Clifton wrote:
>> Hi Howard,
>>
>>>>   * It is not clear to me why you create a binary bfd for Libdeps_bfd but
>>>>     then convert it to a plugin type bfd.  Can you explain what you are
>>>>     doing here ?
>>>
>>> This was a major hassle, I should have commented it. The bfd gets created
>>> with type "plugin", and that refuses the bfd_bwrite() call. (Just fails.)
>>> The write only succeeded if I set it to "binary" type first. But then, trying
>>> to add this bfd to the archive failed unless I changed the type back to "plugin."
>>
>> OK - please could you add a comment to this effect to enlighten future readers.
> 
> OK, new patch attached. Added comments, NEWS entry, texi doc, test case.

Sorry for the noise, this attached is the same as previous but with fixes
to whitespace / indentation.

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