Re: libxkbcommon version-script detection

From: Peter Blok <pblok_at_bsd4all.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:42:07 UTC
Patch works fine! Thanks.

Do I need to open up a bug to get this pushed upstream?

Peter


> On 10 Jan 2025, at 13:28, Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10 Jan 2025, at 12:56, Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org <mailto:dim@FreeBSD.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 10 Jan 2025, at 12:20, Peter Blok <pblok@bsd4all.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Test works ok when using clang18 from ports
>>> 
>>>> On 10 Jan 2025, at 11:19, Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 10 Jan 2025, at 10:22, Peter Blok <pblok@bsd4all.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have recompiled x11/libxkbcommon and it fails to detect if the compiler/linker supports versioned symbols. As a result other code expecting the versioned symbol to exist, fail to link.
>>>>> 
>>>>> C compiler for the host machine: cc (clang 19.1.5 "FreeBSD clang version 19.1.5 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-19.1.5-0-gab4b5a2db582)")
>>>>> C linker for the host machine: cc ld.lld 19.1.5
>>>>> 
>>>>> Below the meson.build check. If I force have_version_script to true, the versioned symbols are created and other code links fine.
>>>>> 
>>>>> # Supports -Wl,--version-script?
>>>>> have_version_script = cc.links(
>>>>> 'int main(){}',
>>>>> args: '-Wl,--undefined-version,--version-script=' + meson.current_source_dir()/'xkbcommon.map',
>>>>> name: '-Wl,--version-script',
>>>>> )
>>>>> 
>>>>> Below the output for the test.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Checking if "-Wl,--version-script" : links: NO
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I create test.c with content "int main(){}” and compile it manually with the same flags AFAIK, it compiles ok. No errors.
>>>>> 
>>>>> However when I capture "make configure" with ktrace, it fails with the error below.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ld: error: non-exported symbol 'environ' in '/usr/lib/crt1.o' is referenced by DSO '/lib/libc.so.7'
>>>>>    ld: error: non-exported symbol '__progname' in '/usr/lib/crt1.o' is referenced by DSO '/lib/libc.so.7'
>>>>>    cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
>>>>> 
>>>>> What flags need to be added in meson.build to allow it to work?
>>>>> 
>>>>> BTW This is on recent stable, but I suspect it fails the same way on current which I do not run at the moment.
>>>> 
>>>> It works just fine on -CURRENT:
>>>> 
>>>> ...
>>>> Checking if "-Wl,--version-script" : links: YES
>>>> 
>>>> Not sure what is going wrong in your environment. Is this stable/14?
>> 
>> It appears to help when the lines:
>> 
>> local:
>>   *;
>> 
>> are removed from /wrkdirs/usr/ports/x11/libxkbcommon/work/libxkbcommon-1.7.0/xkbcommon.map. Apparently on main, environ and __progname are slightly different.
>> 
>> In any case, the "local: *;" thing has caused problems before, so maybe it's better to get rid of it.
> 
> Here's a better patch, that can also be upstreamed. It avoids the whole problem of trying to use the "full" xkbcommon.map during meson tests.
> 
> -Dimitry
> 
> <x11__libxkbcommon-fix-version-script-check-1.diff>