Nicholas Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Oct 30 12:03:00 GMT 2014

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Hi Christer,

> I see that if libfl.a or libfl.so is found, binutils links to it.
> But I haven't found of why binutils wants that library. What does
> binutils want with it?

Quite a few programs in the binutils suite use flex.  The linker uses it 
to parse link scripts.  Some ports of gas use it to parse assembler 
source code.  The archiver (ar) uses it to MRI scripts, and so on.

Cheers
   Nick

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