enable-new-dtags only for GNU ELF linker

[rpetrov]

BPO	17362
Files	0004-ORIGIN-enable-new-dtags-only-for-GNU-ELF-linker.patch

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[rpetrov]

GNU binutils properly document that flag --enable-new-dtags is only available on ELF systems.
I would like to propose a simple hack to avoid activation if ELF is not listed in supported emulations.

Comments in unixccompiler.py are not precise : "# GNU ld needs an extra option to get a RUNPATH ..", i.e. ELF is missing.

Also GNULD is not correct name for flag. What about to change to GNUELFLD ?

You could test on cygwin for instance.

[BreamoreBoy]

Can someone comment on this please as I haven't got a clue, sorry :(