[Bug ld/16790] New: [cygwin|mingw] ld -v creates a.exe

[yselkowitz at cygwin dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16790

            Bug ID: 16790
           Summary: [cygwin|mingw] ld -v creates a.exe
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.25 (HEAD)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
          Assignee: nickc at redhat dot com
          Reporter: yselkowitz at cygwin dot com

Nick,

A possibly unforeseen side-effect has resulted from the addition of
default-manifest support for PE targets.  Usually, a simple '[$target-]ld -v'
only prints the version, and '[$target-]ld --verbose' without any other
arguments prints the linker script but does not create a file.  However, with
the new Cygwin binutils (20140326 snapshot), an a.exe file is created in both
cases.  I presume this was not intentional.  Could the previous behaviour be
restored (IOW do not include default-manifest.o if there is nothing else to
link)?

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