[PATCH libICE] Enable visibility annotations

[Yury Gribov]

On 05/10/2016 03:00 PM, Yury Gribov wrote:
> On 05/06/2016 07:25 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 05/ 6/16 04:18 AM, Yury Gribov wrote:
>>> Unfortunately I don't see any good approach. We could move
>>> definitions of
>>> _X_EXPORT and friends to configure.ac but this would need to be done
>>> for all X11 packages (not just libICE) which just does not scale.
>>
>> And then you'd require any package that #includes an X11 header to use
>> autoconf and add those to configure.ac and that really doesn't scale.
>
> There is a way around this: you can strip internal defines from public
> headers and replace it with e.g. extern. This is how visibility was
> enabled for acl and libattr some time ago
> (http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/acl-devel/2016-02/msg00020.html).
>
>> Xfuncproto.h exists because X exposes headers to things built with
>> hundreds of different build systems.

Cc-ed my home address (today's my last day in Samsung).

-Y