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Subject: [Differential] [Commented On] D2887: Allow ELF Tool Chain elfcopy to
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emaste added a comment.

In https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2887#56056, @bapt wrote:

> Why not always build elfcopy and just make a hardlink objcopy if MK_ELFCOPY_AS_OBJCOPY is set?
>
> That will make elfcopy always available to users


That's a possibility, although I think I'd prefer to (eventually) just install elfcopy as objcopy on all platforms, ensuring that it supports all of the options we care about. We haven't yet shipped elfcopy in a release.


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