[Bug binutils/25873] ar segfaults when liblto_plugin.so.0.0.0 is a symlink in /usr/lib/bfd-plugins

[tstellar at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25873

--- Comment #4 from Tom Stellard <tstellar at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #3)
> Hi Tom,
> 
>   I am sorry but I cannot reproduce this.  It seems very strange that a
>   symlink should be causing a segmentation fault when a copy does not.
> 

I am able to reproduce this running in the fedora:rawhide container image, so
you may want to give that a try.

>   The "ar" program that you are running - is this the binutils ar binary
>   or is it an alias/symlink for the gcc-ar script ?
> 

ar is not a symlink or alias as far as I can tell.

>   If you have the symlink in place and you run:
> 
>     ar crs --plugin /usr/lib/bfd-plugins/liblto_plugin.so.0.0.0 foo.a foo.o
> bar.o
> 
>   Does that work ?
> 

Yes, this works.

>   Does the problem persist if you use the current mainline development
>   sources for the binutils rather than the 2.34 release ?
> 

I will try the development sources.  I'm currently testing with
gcc-10.0.1-0.12.fc33 and binutils-2.34-3.fc33.

> Cheers
>   Nick

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