[Bug binutils/14698] ar, nm and ranlib don't use gcc's liblto_plugin.so in BINDIR/../lib/bfd-plugins automatically

[markus at trippelsdorf dot de]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14698

--- Comment #8 from Markus Trippelsdorf <markus at trippelsdorf dot de> ---
(In reply to address@hidden from comment #7)
> Hello,
> 
> I think the patch is not correct.
> 
> Unless --target is specified, it creates archives using the "plugin" target,
> which may not be compatible with the target.  For example, the archive
> format on IBM AIX is not compatible with the "plugin" one.
> 
> I think the ar.c:open_inarch lines:
>  if (target == NULL)
>     target = plugin_target;
> should be moved (target shouldn't be overridden when creating a new target).

I think you re-opened the wrong bug.
The lines you're talking about were introduced in 2010 by Alan:
commit 90b79792c01821d14248f4cf8c330a599fb5a4b

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