[Bug ld/28722] New: Vague linker error message for bad thin archive

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28722

            Bug ID: 28722
           Summary: Vague linker error message for bad thin archive
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.38 (HEAD)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: hjl.tools at gmail dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

[hjl@gnu-tgl-3 thin]$ cat x.s 
        .text
        .global foo
foo:
        .byte 0

        .data
        .dc.a bar
[hjl@gnu-tgl-3 thin]$ cat bar.s
        .data
        .global bar
bar:
        .byte 0
[hjl@gnu-tgl-3 thin]$ make
as   -o x.o x.s
as   -o bar.o bar.s
ar rcsT libbar.a bar.o
mv bar.o xxx
./ld -shared -o x.so x.o libbar.a
./ld: libbar.a: error adding symbols: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:9: x.so] Error 1
[hjl@gnu-tgl-3 thin]$ make LD=ld.gold
as   -o bar.o bar.s
ar rcsT libbar.a bar.o
mv bar.o xxx
ld.gold -shared -o x.so x.o libbar.a
ld.gold: error: cannot open bar.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:9: x.so] Error 1
[hjl@gnu-tgl-3 thin]$ make LD=ld.lld
as   -o bar.o bar.s
ar rcsT libbar.a bar.o
mv bar.o xxx
ld.lld -shared -o x.so x.o libbar.a
ld.lld: error: libbar.a: could not get the buffer for the member defining
symbol bar: 'bar.o': No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:9: x.so] Error 1
[hjl@gnu-tgl-3 thin]$

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