On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> wrote: > Il 25/08/2012 17:58, H.J. Lu ha scritto: >> The change was introduced by >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2005-03/msg01452.html >> >> Paolo, do you remember the reason for this? > > Actually, this patch came before bfd started using libtool and hence .libs. > > The patch is okay if binutils always uses libtool to link programs that > require libbfd and libopcodes. Can you check? >
Yes, binutils always uses libtool. GDB doesn't use libtool. But it is linked against libbfd.a and libopcodes.a when configured with --enable-shared. I am checking it in. -- H.J.
