[PATCH] archives require a symbol table on Solaris, even if empty

[Danek Duvall via llvm-commits]

James Henderson wrote:

> I noticed when looking at this that the writeSymbolTable does not write
> anything if there are no archive members at all, even after this patch (see
> the early return on line 331). I would think that if a caller has requested
> a symbol table we should write one, even if it is for an empty archive, but
> that perhaps is a different discussion. Do your tools care about a missing
> symbol table if the archive is completely empty?

The linker cares, but not as much -- it emits a warning and ignores it.

Danek