Hi,

There's a bug in binutils 1.37, which we are using on the
core-updates-frozen branch.

It's a file descriptor leak that can lead to 'malformed archive' errors
when linking libraries. We get this problem at least when building
qtwekbit and qtwebengine. A workaround allows us to compile qtwebkit
(see [1]), but it doesn't work for qtwebengine.

The bug was discussed at [2] and upstream has a patch to fix it at [3].
However, adding this patch to our binutils rebuilds the world.
I'm currently trying to build things with the patched binutils.
If everything works, should I push this fix on core-updates-frozen, or
does someone have an idea that would lead to less rebuilds?

P.S.: The patch I'm trying is in attachment.