the former will fail if libbfd is a static library and has a libz
dependency that we don't know about (#3756)
dnl ** check whether this machine has BFD and liberty installed (used for debugging)
dnl the order of these tests matters: bfd needs liberty
AC_CHECK_LIB(iberty, xmalloc)
-AC_CHECK_LIB(bfd, bfd_init)
+AC_CHECK_LIB(bfd, bfd_uncompress_section_contents)
dnl ################################################################
dnl Check for libraries