Revert rev 1.3. While that change appears to make the behaviour similar to

binutils 2.15, it introduces bogus failures when inter-library dependencies
are present.

With the binutils 2.17 behaviour restored, --as-needed will cause linker
failures when necessary inter-library dependencies are not present.  This is
actually a good thing as binutils 2.15 will silently produce executables
that will fail at runtime in those cases.

ok miod@

diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/bfd/elflink.c b/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/bfd/elflink.c
index 6bb64fb..b572921 100644 (file)
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/bfd/elflink.c
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/bfd/elflink.c
@@ -3079,11 +3079,8 @@ elf_link_add_object_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
   bfd_boolean add_needed;
   struct elf_link_hash_table *htab;
   bfd_size_type amt;
-#if 0
   void *alloc_mark = NULL;
-#endif
   void *old_tab = NULL;
-#if 0
   void *old_hash;
   void *old_ent;
   struct bfd_link_hash_entry *old_undefs = NULL;
@@ -3091,7 +3088,6 @@ elf_link_add_object_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
   long old_dynsymcount = 0;
   size_t tabsize = 0;
   size_t hashsize = 0;
-#endif
 
   htab = elf_hash_table (info);
   bed = get_elf_backend_data (abfd);
@@ -3466,7 +3462,6 @@ elf_link_add_object_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
        }
     }
 
-#if 0
   /* If we are loading an as-needed shared lib, save the symbol table
      state before we start adding symbols.  If the lib turns out
      to be unneeded, restore the state.  */
@@ -3529,7 +3524,6 @@ elf_link_add_object_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
            }
        }
     }
-#endif
 
   weaks = NULL;
   ever = extversym != NULL ? extversym + extsymoff : NULL;
@@ -4139,7 +4133,6 @@ elf_link_add_object_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
       isymbuf = NULL;
     }
 
-#if 0
   if ((elf_dyn_lib_class (abfd) & DYN_AS_NEEDED) != 0)
     {
       unsigned int i;
@@ -4183,7 +4176,6 @@ elf_link_add_object_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
        free (nondeflt_vers);
       return TRUE;
     }
-#endif
 
   if (old_tab != NULL)
     {