Despite what the blog comments suggest, gdb does not have to link to libbfd. But what about objcopy? Much more important utility than strings(1), in my opinio

Despite what the blog comments suggest, gdb does not have to link to libbfd. But what about objcopy? Much more important utility than strings(1), in my opinion. I admit I rely on it and do not a have a substitute at the ready. At some stage we need a BSD alternative to the GNU binutils (aside from gcc alternatives). I have seen it discussed several times over the years, but as far as I know it does not exist?