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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 1/5/26 13:02, Dave Hansen wrote: > It's either that or I'm reading the Makefile logic backwards (wouldn't > be the first time 🙂. Oh, and I'd also randomly guess that this binutils "bug" has long since been fixed or become irrelevant. So this might be a bit silly to even discuss. But, let's at least make sure to document in the changelog what we _might_ be breaking and not pretend that this has zero consequences.