Problem building 1.4.5

[Robin Getz]

On Wed 16 Jun 2010 18:18, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 18:13, Robin Getz wrote:
> > On Wed 16 Jun 2010 05:23, Werner Koch pondered:
> >> If this is the case something is wrong with the linker for the system,
> >> disable this feature using
> >>
> >>   ./configure --disable-ld-version-script
> >>
> >> and try building again.
> >
> > That fixes things - but can you describe what you mean when you say
> > "something wrong with the linker"?
> 
> the version script operates on linker-visible symbols, not on C
> visible symbols, so the linker is operating correctly.  this is why
> projects like alsa-lib have the version script be a .in file and it
> prefixes all symbols with like @SYMBOL_PREFIX at .  then the configure
> script processes that into the final version script with
> @SYMBOL_PREFIX@ replaced with "_" or "" depending on the configure
> detected needs of the target system.
> 
> considering support is apparently already there via
> WITH_SYMBOL_UNDERSCORE, seems like it should be pretty easy to extend
> this.


On Thu 17 Jun 2010 03:44, Werner Koch pondered:
> Please use the disable switch until we found a clean solution.

Is Mike's suggestion palatable?