Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Major symbol exporting problem

[Ian Zimmerman]

Albert Chu <address@hidden> writes:

> Hmmm, off the top of my head, I guessing no.  Wrapping the #ifdef around
> xmalloc will not stop the symbol from being exported.  But its worth a
> shot, I'll give it a shot later on today.
> 
> There are ways to stop symbols from being exported via the compiler. 
> But I don't know if we want to do that ... 
> 

What library is the one that conflicts?  Just libiberty or another?

We could put a check into configure.ac like

LIBS="$LIBS -liberty"
AC_CHECK_FUNCS(xmalloc)

this will define LIBOBJS=xmalloc.o if it is not found, then you can
include it conditionally like

modules=foo.o bar.o $(LIBOBJS)

In fact I think this is The Right Way (TM)