Re: [v3] more sophisticated versioning checks, enable by default

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:39:50PM -0800, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> I think this makes this --enable flag consistent with other
> libstdc++-v3 configure flags, allows some systems to immediately start
> using symbol versioning without disrupting other systems, and at the
> same time allows a configuration option so that Loren can purposefully
> build a broken libstdc++ configuration on BSD to work through
> configuration issues. Does this seem fair, and a good way to proceed?

Yes.

> Also, this enable flag should probably be documented on configopts.html.

I was waiting until it stabilized.  :-)

This comment change:

>   dnl       Where DEFAULT is either `yes' or `no'.  If ommitted, it
> ! dnl       defaults to `no'.  Passing `yes' tries to choose a default style
> ! dnl       based on linker characteristics.
> --- 2042,2049 ----
>   dnl       Where DEFAULT is either `yes' or `no'.  If ommitted, it
> ! dnl       defaults to `yes'.  Passing `yes' tries to choose a default style
> ! dnl       based on linker characteristics. Passing 'no' disables versioning.

is actually wrong.  The "if ommitted" refers to the "DEFAULT" flag passed
when calling GLIBCPP_ENABLE_SYMVERS from configure.in, not what gets
passed by the user to --enable-symvers.  (If nothing is passed by the user,
a value of "yes" is dropped in by autoconf.)

"If ommitted, defaults to no" refers to

>   define([GLIBCPP_ENABLE_SYMVERS_DEFAULT], ifelse($1, yes, yes, no))dnl

i.e., what happens in we were to write

    GLIBCPP_ENABLE_SYMVERS

by itself.

I'll fix up that comment when I write something for configopts.html.


Phil

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