Re: symbol versioning, take 2

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:49:26PM -0800, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > The idea behind the tests and the name of the version script is that, if
> > someone wants to provide a script which does not require GNU ld, we can
> > drop that in config/linker-map.foo and --enable-symvers will DTRT. 
> 
> Or do you want to have it default to off, and have --enable-symvers=gnu or
> --enable-symvers=mach-o switch appropriately? The configure bits can probe
> for required functionality, and flip it on it the correct bits are found.

I have a comment in the --enable configury suggesting this.  :-)  I don't
know enough about possible other versioning schemes to generalize it,
but it shouldn't be too hard given what's there.

Remaining bits should be checked in shortly; everything defaulting to off.


Phil

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