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Re: [v3] more symbol exports
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, ljrittle at acm dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:04:46 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: [v3] more symbol exports
> That's gonna be the tricky part: testing for supported ld's. Until they
> bump the version in src/bfd/configure.in to something greater than 2.11.93,
> we can't simply do a version test. (They don't seem to bump the version
> using any particular criteria.)
Well then... perhaps a patch to src/bfd/configure.in could be presented to
the binutils list?
> The Autoconf Way would be to test for supported functionality, but how
> to do that correctly escapes me. (Try linking a random shared library
> using -Wl,--version-script with globbing patterns, and see if a syntax
> errors results?)
Huh. I have no idea, and it doesn't look very inviting, does it? Try
posting the binutils patch and seeing if anyone is especially clever...
-benjamin