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authorYaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>2010-02-24 02:56:59 -0600
committerYaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>2010-03-22 00:45:48 -0500
commit8e5de45513577c63a33833931f2afd0cc59d42a7 (patch)
tree0b5d9012b67a712e1066d76e5cfff0581c0221e2
parent2a11ffa977d2267d8b2f27b76490a98e9c73b8c7 (diff)
Use libtool -export-dynamic flag for portability
The linker flag required for exporting symbols in executables varies by platform. libtool handles this with a single -export-dynamic flag (not to be confused with the similarly-named ELF linker flag) which tells it to use the correct platform-specific flag at link time. Signed-off-by: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> Reviewed-by: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
-rw-r--r--configure.ac14
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e497e76b4..d379b3af5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1440,17 +1440,9 @@ UTILS_SYS_LIBS="${SYS_LIBS}"
AC_SUBST([UTILS_SYS_LIBS])
# The Xorg binary needs to export symbols so that they can be used from modules
-# Some platforms require extra flags to do this. gcc should set these flags
-# when -rdynamic is passed to it, other compilers/linkers may need to be added
-# here.
-if test "x$GCC" = "xyes"; then
- LD_EXPORT_SYMBOLS_FLAG="-rdynamic"
-fi
-case $host_os in
- openbsd*)
- LD_EXPORT_SYMBOLS_FLAG="-Wl,--export-dynamic"
- ;;
-esac
+# Some platforms require extra flags to do this. libtool should set the
+# necessary flags for each platform when -export-dynamic is passed to it.
+LD_EXPORT_SYMBOLS_FLAG="-export-dynamic"
AC_SUBST([LD_EXPORT_SYMBOLS_FLAG])
dnl Imake defines SVR4 on SVR4 systems, and many files check for it, so