[PATCH] dependency list for static libraries

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Howard,

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

Thanks - the patch looks good now, although there are still a couple of minor
issues - and one major issue:

  * The new test fails for the alpha-vms target.  This is not serious however
    as almost all of the ar tests fail for this target.  One day I will track
    down what is going wrong and either fix it, or arrange to skip these tests
    for alpha-vms.

  * There are a couple of minor formatting issues.  Specifically: comments should
    end in a period followed by two spaces before the closing marker. /* Like this.  */
    Plus function calls should have a space between the function name and the 
    opening parenthesis of the argument list.  like (this)

The major issue is that I would really like for this extension to be supported
by the LLVM community as well.  It would be a shame to add it to the binutils
only to have a different solution implemented there.  I might have misread the
emails but I believe that Fangrui still has some misgivings about this approach.
Is that correct ?  If so, then I would very much like to see them resolved 
before we commit the patch.

Cheers
  Nick