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On 8/9/22 08:59, Luis Machado wrote:

> that would make BFD use gnulib

Not really. BFD code would not use any Gnulib code as a result of that 
patch. It's merely a patch to how BFD is configured, not how it's run.

In other words, no source files under bfd/* change, and libbfd.a 
contains no Gnulib code and needs no Gnulib code.