Re: MacOS X 10.5 and -export-symbols-regex

[Peter O'Gorman]

Joe Orton wrote:
> We've had a report for Apache httpd that use of -export-symbols-regex is 
> causing the produced DSO to be unusable with OS X 10.5.1.  This was with 
> libtool 1.5.22:
> 
> http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44384
> 
> I've CC'ed Giuliano, the reporter.  Can anybody help?  The module in 
> question, mod_ssl, is linked using
> 
>    -module -avoid-version ... -export-symbols-regex ssl_module
> 
> (to avoid exporting anything other than the DSO entry point)
> 

(Still waiting for bugzilla password to arrive - will paste this into
the bug when it does).

I have had other reports of this, and changed libtool in 1.5.26 and HEAD
to use ld's  -exported_symbols_list flag if it is available, instead of
a separate invocation of nmedit. In one case this fixed the problem.

I have not had time to reproduce on my own system to gather enough
information to file a bug with Apple - a trivial test case I tried a
month or two ago worked fine with nmedit being used to limit the
exported symbols.

I will try to find the time to investigate, in the meantime, either
remove the exported symbol limiting on darwin (ugh.) or try with latest
libtool-1.5.26.

Peter
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