On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Matthias Clasen wrote:
Place: irc.gnome.org:#gtk-devel
Time: 21:00 UTC (16:00 EST), Tue, March 7
Possible agenda items:
[...]
- dropping -Wl,--export-dynamic
upon behdad's request, here's the relevant background on removal of
gmodule-2.0.pc, respectively -Wl,--export-dynamic:
Mar 06 22:26:47 * rambokid kicks gmodule-2.0.pc for having
--export-dynamic
Mar 06 22:27:56 <tko> rambokid, gmodule-no-export-2.0.pc ? (backwards
compatibility I suppose?)
Mar 06 22:29:20 <rambokid> tko: that doesn't help as --export-dynamic
already propagated into dependent libraries (e.g. libgnomecanvas)
Mar 06 22:31:11 <rambokid> matthias: around? we should remove
--export-dynamic from gmodule-2.0.pc since you added gmodule-export-2.0.pc
Mar 06 22:36:55 <matthias> rambokid: maybe. OTOH, we have gmodule-export
and gmodule-no-export now, so we could just deprecate the gmodule-2.0.pc file
Mar 06 22:37:43 <rambokid> matthias: i don't think that helps, unless
you actually stop to install that file. (otherwise people won't update their
configure.in scripts and dependent libraries are still affected).
Mar 06 22:38:14 <rambokid> matthias: simply removing --export-dynamic
should be easiest for all though. people that really depend on that flag will notice
and can swictch to module-export easily.
Mar 06 22:40:08 <rambokid> matthias: getting rid of that flag is
important, it actually causes real breakage, such as: libgnomecanvas adopts the
--export-dynamic flag, and then every library that links against libgnomecanvas gets
that flag passed. that in turn can break linking for a lot of libraries, since other
linker flags may only be used in absence of --export-dynamic (like --version-script
as recommended in the dsohowto)
Mar 06 22:41:21 <rambokid> so dependednt libraries are really screwed
(unless they do ugly hackery such as trying to remove the flag again via sed or
similar)
Mar 06 22:42:07 <matthias> hmm, can we do this in the middle of a stable
series ? or is this 2.12 material ?
Mar 06 22:42:42 <rambokid> matthias: i don't mind making this change, it
does make sense and has little impact (only plugin authors could notice).
Mar 06 22:43:02 <rambokid> matthias: to be sure though, you can ask
owen. he tends to be much more conservative about such things than me ;)
Mar 06 22:45:26 <matthias> rambokid: I'll ask owen next time I see him
(which could be tomorrow or next month...)
Mar 06 22:46:18 <rambokid> matthias: ok.
Mar 07 16:46:50 <behdad> mclasen: seems like I will miss the meeting.
can you point me to relevant discussion about dropping -Wl,--export-dynamic?
Matthias
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ciaoTJ
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