Re: [ft-devel] [PATCH] Further fix to visibility flag testing with Solaris Studio compilers

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 05/ 6/18 10:24 AM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
>> AC_LINK_IFELSE does the compile and then tries to link the result...
>> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <address@hidden>
> 
> Thank you, Alan. Wouldn't you want libtool to do it for you? There is
> also IBM's -qvisibility and HP's -Bhidden. Most others define do
> -fvisibility and define __GNUC__.
> 
> I put up a proposal for LT_INIT(elf-hidden),
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2018-02/msg00011.html. But I
> do not have enough expertise to see it through. Somebody should have
> used there GSoC slot for this.
> 

That would save every project having to reinvent this wheel, but I've
not got time to drive that forward right now, nor access to IBM & HP
machines to ensure it's correctly defined for them.

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        -Alan Coopersmith-               address@hidden
         Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc