Re: [PATCH] pei386, ld auto-import

[Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Hi Charles,

> Could somebody on arm-epoc-pe or other non-DLL-supporting pe platform
> please verify that this patch allows successful compilation/operation
> of binutils?  the patched version does work on cygwin (but the
> unpatched version worked on cygwin, too)

As you have probably guessed this version of the patch is unsuitable
too.  There are two problems:

  1. The new function pe_get_data_import_dll_name() is defined inside
     #ifdef DLL_SUPPORT code, and so is not present for targets like
     arm-epoc-pe.  (This of course is easily fixed).

  2. The new function pe_get_data_import_dll_name() is a global
     function and will be multiply defined if ld is configured for
     more than one PE target.  eg when building ld with
     --enable-targets=all specified.  This is much harder to fix.

I have applied a workaround instead - of moving the definition of the
pe_data_import_dll variable outside of the #ifdef DLL_SUPPORT
controlled code - however if you feel that this is unsuitable then
please feel free to submit a different solution.

Cheers
        Nick