Dealing with symbol visibility mismatches

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

Could things break if the test would be done also in other modules and 
KDE_EXPORT would be set properly ?

Alex