[Patch] Convert PE relocatable modules to ELF with objcopy

[Christian Franke]

objcopy from binutils-20060817-1 cannot convert pe-i396 to elf32-i386. 
The offsets of the pc-relative relocation entries are not converted 
properly.
(http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=970)

I recently started a Cygwin port of GRUB2 ([Maybe ITP later]-).
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-10/msg00071.html)

GRUB2 loadable modules use ELF format, therefore, some PE to ELF 
conversion is required to build on Cygwin.

The first working Cygwin patch for GRUB2 includes a workaround to load 
the broken ELF modules produced by objcopy. It would be desirable to fix 
this in objcopy itself.

A patch is attached.

2007-10-21  Christian Franke  <franke@computer.org>

	* objcopy.c (fix_relocation): New function to
	fix pc-relative relocation offset, for PE to ELF only.
	(copy_section): Call fix_relocation for	section data.


Christian

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