merged r11843 into LinkageMapMachO

svn path=/main/branches/prefix/; revision=11942

diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
index 98872c34f53b1b50231417157c24e06d2b3e2d17..4367394596203f5a8c22142758fb17be287a93c8 100644 (file)
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
@@ -1152,7 +1152,12 @@ class LinkageMapMachO(object):
 
                In some cases, not all consumers are returned.  This may occur when
                an soname symlink referencing a library is in an object's runpath while
-               the actual library is not.
+               the actual library is not. For example, this problem is noticeable for
+               binutils since it's libraries are added to the path via symlinks that
+               are gemerated in the /usr/$CHOST/lib/ directory by binutils-config.
+               Failure to recognize consumers of these symlinks makes preserve-libs
+               fail to preserve binutils libs that are needed by these unrecognized
+               consumers.
 
                @param obj: absolute path to an object or a key from _obj_properties
                @type obj: string (example: '/usr/bin/bar') or _ObjectKey