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OCTOBER 6, 2026
bfd — Committed

bfd: Fix Makefile.in

David Faust committed a fix to bfd/Makefile.in to correct a build issue introduced by a previous commit.

David Faust has committed a fix to the bfd/Makefile.in file in binutils. A previous commit that regenerated this file inadvertently omitted a necessary line, breaking the build process. This change restores the missing line, ensuring that the build completes successfully.

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  1. David Faust <david.faust@oss.qualcomm.com> proposer

    Committed a fix to bfd/Makefile.in to resolve a build error caused by an omission in a previous file regeneration.

In Details

This commit rectifies a build system error in the BFD library of binutils. A recent regeneration of bfd/Makefile.in (likely due to commit 8943e377867eac62928441e5236aa9c866d9dd0e) missed including the btf.Plo dependency, causing build failures. This patch adds the missing include line back into Makefile.in.

For Context
Makefile.in
A template file used by Autoconf to generate the final Makefile during the build configuration process.
BFD
Binary File Descriptor library, a low-level interface within binutils for handling various object file formats.
Autoconf
A tool that automatically configures source code packages to adapt to a specific operating system or environment.
Plo
Likely refers to a .plo file, which is an intermediate object file generated by the GNU build system (part of Autoconf/Automake) during the compilation process.
BTF
Brief Type Format, a compact representation of type information used in systems like the Linux kernel for features like eBPF.
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