Review Request 110563: Crash fix: hide symbols from static lib QtUitools.a (generically by new macro KDE4_HIDE_SYMBOLS_FROM_STATIC_LIBS)

[Alexander Neundorf]

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The documentation for the macro should be at the top of FindKDE4Internal.cmake, where all the documentation is.

For the technical side: this flag is new to me. Is it the only possible solution ? Thiago ?

- Alexander Neundorf


On May 22, 2013, 11:19 a.m., Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
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> (Updated May 22, 2013, 11:19 a.m.)
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> Review request for Build System, kdelibs, Alexander Neundorf, and Thiago Macieira.
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> Description
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> Like discussed in the thread "Crashes with libQtUiTools.a if linked multiple times into the same process (with Bsymbolic-functions flag)" on kde-core-devel ( http://lists.kde.org/?t=136829863100001&r=1&w=2 ) symbols from QtUitools.a are not hidden by default in Qt4 and thus will be added to the public symbols of the module/shared lib they are linked to. And thus can appear multiple times in the same process, resulting in symbol clashes and leading to problems at least with the Bsymbolic-functions flag or when being possibly incompatible versions.
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> Attached patch sees to solve that problem, by adding a macro KDE4_HIDE_SYMBOLS_FROM_STATIC_LIBS which should add any needed linker flags depending on the platform/linker used. 
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> Only issue is that instead of some variable I had to use "QtUiTools.a" as I found no variable which would resolve to that. E.g. ${QT_QTUITOOLS_LIBRARY} resolves to "Qt4::QtUiTools" for me. Any idea what to use there, in case another platform needs another name/prefix here?
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> Patch is against 4.10 branch, so I hope to get this in 4.10.4
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> http://lxr.kde.org/search?v=4.10-branch&filestring=&string=QT_QTUITOOLS_LIBRARY shows that there are some more places where the symbols need hiding, but I first want feedback on the proposed approach.
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> Diffs
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>   cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake cb63285 
>   cmake/modules/KDE4Macros.cmake 3db4e24 
>   kjsembed/kjsembed/CMakeLists.txt d70f260 
>   kross/modules/CMakeLists.txt d245fd8 
>   kross/qts/CMakeLists.txt d8cb4a5 
>   plasma/CMakeLists.txt 674550d 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110563/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
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