Re: [PATCH] dumper: avoid linker problem when `libbfd` depends on `libsframe`

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Feb  1 18:04, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 01/02/2023 17:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb  1 15:08, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > A recent binutils version introduced `libsframe` and made it a
> > > dependency of `libbfd`. This caused a linker problem in the MSYS2
> > > project, and once Cygwin upgrades to that binutils version it would
> > > cause the same problems there.
> > > 
> > > Let's preemptively detect the presence of `libsframe` and if detected,
> > > link to it in addition to `libbfd`.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > > ---
> > > Published-As: https://github.com/dscho/msys2-runtime/releases/tag/do-link-libsframe-if-available-v1
> > > Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/dscho/msys2-runtime do-link-libsframe-if-available-v1
> > > 
> > >   winsup/configure.ac      | 5 +++++
> > >   winsup/utils/Makefile.am | 4 ++++
> > >   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > 
> > LGTM.  Jon, what do you think?
> 
> Well, the real solution here is for binutils to stop pretending that no-one
> links with libbfd and provide a .pc file for it, because we'll just be in
> the same situation the next time it grows another dependency.
> 
> Until that happens :),

As in "never"?  The binutils cygport package could provide it in
a kind of sneaky handcrafted way, couldn't it?

> this seems fine.

I pushed the patch.


Thanks,
Corinna