[PATCH v2] strip: Don't treat fat IR objects as plugin object

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 10:01:59PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 9:34 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 09:06:29PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > BTW, should we drop --disable-plugins to always enable plugins?
> > > Binutils should still work with compilers which don't support plugin.
> >
> > bfd/configure.ac disables plugins for various targets, so I think we're
> > stuck with BFD_SUPPORTS_PLUGINS == 0.  Otherwise something would need
> > to be done for hpux, vms and aix to fix their ar support.
> >
> 
> Did you mean host? If a host doesn't support dlopen,
> it can be treated as if dlopen fails.

No, target.  When BFD_SUPPORTS_PLUGINS ar and other binutils use
a default target of "plugin".  plugin_vec uses the generic archive
support, while their target vec uses another archive format.

-- 
Alan Modra