From 54f16fc4bb74dbcaf6e77c340a1ae8bb9bf0c2f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 16:20:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * linker.c (_bfd_generic_link_add_archive_symbols):
It's not an error if an empty archive has no symbol table. * ecoff.c
(ecoff_link_add_archive_symbols): Likewise. * elfcode.h
(elf_link_add_archive_symbols): Likewise.
---
bfd/ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
bfd/elfcode.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 99da14d6b0c..b42d6cf2042 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Sat Oct 29 12:18:10 1994 Ian Lance Taylor (ian@tweedledumb.cygnus.com)
+
+ * linker.c (_bfd_generic_link_add_archive_symbols): It's not an
+ error if an empty archive has no symbol table.
+ * ecoff.c (ecoff_link_add_archive_symbols): Likewise.
+ * elfcode.h (elf_link_add_archive_symbols): Likewise.
+
Fri Oct 28 10:08:41 1994 J.T. Conklin (jtc@rtl.cygnus.com)
NetBSD/m68k support, based on work by mikeb@snow.datametrics.com:
diff --git a/bfd/elfcode.h b/bfd/elfcode.h
index cdb51afda88..d3b477f6810 100644
--- a/bfd/elfcode.h
+++ b/bfd/elfcode.h
@@ -3738,6 +3738,9 @@ elf_link_add_archive_symbols (abfd, info)
if (! bfd_has_map (abfd))
{
+ /* An empty archive is a special case. */
+ if (bfd_openr_next_archived_file (abfd, (bfd *) NULL) == NULL)
+ return true;
bfd_set_error (bfd_error_no_symbols);
return false;
}