Dealing with symbol visibility mismatches

[Maksim Orlovich]

> Em Terça-feira 26 Maio 2009, às 16:48:44, Benjamin Reed escreveu:
>> Does it seem correct to fix the visibility test to check for
>> kdemacros.h and short-circuit as failing if it's not defined?
>
> I'd say that the test should be done only in KDELibs (the module that
> creates
> and installs kdemacros.h). Then the result of this test should be
> installed as
> well, so that other modules can decide whether to use -fvisbility=hidden
> in
> their command-lines as well.

Doesn't this potentially preclude using different compilers for kdelibs
and kdebase (which ought to be possible if they use same ABI)?