Xorg server builds from modular tree on Solaris x86

[Adam Jackson]

On Thursday 14 July 2005 00:28, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 20:06 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >>I also had to remove the gcc-only -rdynamic flag from the link of Xorg.
> >>IRC discussion wasn't sure why it's even there:
> >
> > All I could find that seemed relevant was this in the ld man page, under
> > --export-dynamic:
> >
> > If you use "dlopen" to load a dynamic object which needs to refer back
> > to the symbols defined by the program, rather than some other dynamic
> > object, then you will probably need to use this option when linking the
> > program itself.
>
> Okay, so I guess that needs to stay in, but in a configure variable set
> when $GCC="yes".   I'll look at that tomorrow if no one beats me to it.

I can confirm that the server doesn't export enough symbols when built without 
-rdynamic.  libbitmap won't even load.  This may be yet another instance 
where we need a linker script to get it really right...

- ajax
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