+dnl ===========================================================================
+dnl Linker features test
+dnl ===========================================================================
+
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+dnl WX_VERSIONED_SYMBOLS checks whether the linker can create versioned
+dnl symbols. If it can, sets LDFLAGS_VERSIONING to $CXX flags needed to use
+dnl version script file named versionfile
+dnl
+dnl call WX_VERSIONED_SYMBOLS(versionfile)
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+AC_DEFUN([WX_VERSIONED_SYMBOLS],
+[
+ found_versioning=no
+
+ dnl FIXME - doesn't work, Solaris linker doesn't accept wildcards
+ dnl in the script.
+ dnl dnl Check for known non-gcc cases:
+ dnl case "${host}" in
+ dnl *-*-solaris2* )
+ dnl if test "x$GCC" != "xyes" ; then
+ dnl LDFLAGS_VERSIONING="-M $1"
+ dnl found_versioning=yes
+ dnl fi
+ dnl ;;
+ dnl esac
+
+ dnl Generic check for GCC or GCC-like behaviour (Intel C++, GCC):
+ if test $found_versioning = no ; then
+ AC_CACHE_CHECK([if the linker accepts --version-script], wx_cv_version_script,
+ [
+ echo "VER_1 { *; };" >conftest.sym
+ echo "int main() { return 0; }" >conftest.cpp
+
+ if AC_TRY_COMMAND([
+ $CXX -o conftest.output $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.cpp
+ -Wl,--version-script,conftest.sym >/dev/null 2>conftest.stderr]) ; then
+ if test -s conftest.stderr ; then
+ wx_cv_version_script=no
+ else
+ wx_cv_version_script=yes
+ fi
+ else
+ wx_cv_version_script=no
+ fi
+
+ dnl There's a problem in some old linkers with --version-script that
+ dnl can cause linking to fail when you have objects with vtables in
+ dnl libs 3 deep. This is known to happen in netbsd and openbsd with
+ dnl ld 2.11.2.
+ dnl
+ dnl To test for this we need to make some shared libs and
+ dnl unfortunately we can't be sure of the right way to do that. If the
+ dnl first two compiles don't succeed then it looks like the test isn't
+ dnl working and the result is ignored, but if OTOH the first two
+ dnl succeed but the third does not then the bug has been detected and
+ dnl the --version-script flag is dropped.
+ if test $wx_cv_version_script = yes
+ then
+ echo "struct B { virtual ~B() { } }; \
+ struct D : public B { }; \
+ void F() { D d; }" > conftest.cpp
+
+ if AC_TRY_COMMAND([
+ $CXX -shared -fPIC -o conftest1.output $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.cpp
+ -Wl,--version-script,conftest.sym >/dev/null 2>/dev/null]) &&
+ AC_TRY_COMMAND([
+ $CXX -shared -fPIC -o conftest2.output $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.cpp
+ -Wl,--version-script,conftest.sym conftest1.output >/dev/null 2>/dev/null])
+ then
+ if AC_TRY_COMMAND([
+ $CXX -shared -fPIC -o conftest3.output $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.cpp
+ -Wl,--version-script,conftest.sym conftest2.output conftest1.output >/dev/null 2>/dev/null])
+ then
+ wx_cv_version_script=yes
+ else
+ wx_cv_version_script=no
+ fi
+ fi
+ fi
+
+ rm -f conftest.output conftest.stderr conftest.sym conftest.cpp
+ rm -f conftest1.output conftest2.output conftest3.output
+ ])
+ if test $wx_cv_version_script = yes ; then
+ LDFLAGS_VERSIONING="-Wl,--version-script,$1"
+ fi
+ fi
+])
+