[PATCH 0/8] various build-system fixes and a coredump fix

[Nick Alcock]

On 15 Sep 2021, Alan Modra uttered the following:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 04:58:52PM +0100, Nick Alcock via Binutils wrote:
>> The pptrtab fix needs backporting to 2.36; the installation-time fixes probably
>> need applying all the way back to 2.34 if the users who reported the bugs are to
>> get the fix.  I'll do that if the trees are actually open for commits any
>> more... 2.34 was some time ago!
>
> They are open, but don't feel that you need to backport that far just
> because a user reported a problem on an old release.  It is probably
> better for the project as a whole to encourage people to update to a
> newer release.  (I'm not saying don't backport to 2.34, that's
> entirely up to you.)

I'll see how much work it is. Running tests is cheap!

(... slight delay pushing because it's possible my pptrtab fix is
possibly incomplete after all: the coredumps it was meant to fix have
come back, so maybe there is another cause of a coredump in there,
hiding behind the first one. Really ctf_lookup_by_name is and always was
an underspecified and tangled mess, with something like three nasty bugs
so far as a direct result. I've added rewriting it to my todo list.)

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