From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:29:49 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Report failed attempts to locate DT_NEEDED files when --verbose is in effect.
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0ec22c2c9fd06505f333c00235b3328a632bb69c;p=binutils-gdb.git

Report failed attempts to locate DT_NEEDED files when --verbose is in effect.

	* emultempl/elf32.em (_try_needed): In verbose mode, report failed
	attempts to find a needed library.
---

diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index 0d900f8fac8..09661161893 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2016-09-22  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* emultempl/elf32.em (_try_needed): In verbose mode, report failed
+	attempts to find a needed library.
+
 2016-09-21  Richard Sandiford  <richard.sandiford@arm.com>
 
 	* testsuite/ld-aarch64/emit-relocs-28.d: Expect spaces after ","
diff --git a/ld/emultempl/elf32.em b/ld/emultempl/elf32.em
index 2153bf9a76a..8461b1d1302 100644
--- a/ld/emultempl/elf32.em
+++ b/ld/emultempl/elf32.em
@@ -337,7 +337,11 @@ gld${EMULATION_NAME}_try_needed (struct dt_needed *needed,
 
   abfd = bfd_openr (name, bfd_get_target (link_info.output_bfd));
   if (abfd == NULL)
-    return FALSE;
+    {
+      if (verbose)
+	info_msg (_("attempt to open %s failed\n"), name);
+      return FALSE;
+    }
 
   /* Linker needs to decompress sections.  */
   abfd->flags |= BFD_DECOMPRESS;