+ /* PR 24281: It is not clear what should happen when copying a thin archive.
+ One part is straight forward - if the output archive is in a different
+ directory from the input archive then any relative paths in the library
+ should be adjusted to the new location. But if any transformation
+ options are active (eg strip, rename, add, etc) then the implication is
+ that these should be applied to the files pointed to by the archive.
+ But since objcopy is not destructive, this means that new files must be
+ created, and there is no guidance for the names of the new files. (Plus
+ this conflicts with one of the goals of thin libraries - only taking up
+ a minimal amount of space in the file system).
+
+ So for now we fail if an attempt is made to copy such libraries. */
+ if (ibfd->is_thin_archive)
+ {
+ status = 1;
+ bfd_set_error (bfd_error_invalid_operation);
+ bfd_nonfatal_message (NULL, ibfd, NULL,
+ _("sorry: copying thin archives is not currently supported"));
+ return;
+ }
+