Bug#178557: mklibs: Error out if a _pic.a does not contain an expected symbol

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 04:04, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> I managed to mis-generate a _pic.a file as an empty archive, which
> managed to send mklibs into an infinite loop. It'd be nice if mklibs
> detected when a shared libaries _pic.a did not contain a symbol it was
> supposed to and errored out.

mklibs is not really smart enough to know what symbols are meant to be
in any particular .a file.  However, it would be nice if mklibs could
detect when it wasn't making any progress (ie when two consecutive
passes have the same set of unresolved symbols) and give up at that
point.  I don't think this should be unduly difficult to arrange.

p.