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Re: Multiply exported Gnulib symbols


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: Multiply exported Gnulib symbols
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:23:03 +0200
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>> > 3) Two different libraries, say, libguile and libgettextpo, using auxiliary
>> >    functions from gnulib. It may happen that libguile and libgettextpo both
>> >    define rpl_strcasecmp, and that this leads to link-time issues.
>> >
>> >    For this we have nothing prepackaged in gnulib-tool, but there is a
>> >    Makefile snippet that does the necessary #defines, i.e.
>> >       #define rpl_strcasecmp scm_strcasecmp
>> >    in guile's config.h, and
>> >       #define rpl_strcasecmp libgettextpo_strcasecmp
>> >    in libgettextpo's config.h. You find this code in the 'config.h' rule in
>> >    
>> > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gettext/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am?revision=1.13&root=gettext&view=text
>> 
>> I second Simon's request to integrate it in Gnulib.  :-)
>
> That would be the wrong place. It needs to be integrated into automake,
> more precisely into automake's support of libtool. automake should allow
> to specify subsets libfoo_la_SOURCES_HIDDEN of libfoo_la_SOURCES, and
> libfoo_la_LIBADD_HIDDEN of libfoo_la_LIBADD, such that the exported symbols
> of these parts get prefixed with 'libfoo_'.

Is there any indication that automake will support this soon?  If not,
perhaps we could adopt the typical approach to work around missing
functionality by implementing this in gnulib.  This namespace-problem
doesn't typically come up in normal situations (I think?), so it is
somewhat gnulib-centric and having a solution in gnulib would allow us
to experiment with it before adding it to automake (if that ever
happens).

I have a customer who needs this functionality, so I'll see if I can
extract something from your work and make it general enough to work in
both gsasl and gnutls.  Although if it makes too much time, I'll resort
to a custom hack for this particular situation..

/Simon




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