Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 4/4] Fix symbol exports & remove duplicated libvirt_util.la linkage

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 06:32:18PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > From: Miloslav Trmač <mitr(a)redhat.com&gt; > > The libvirt_util.la library was mistakenly linked into libvirtd > directly. Since libvirt_util.la is already linked to libvirt.so, > this resulted in libvirtd getting two copies of the code and > more critically 2 copies of static global variables. > > Testing in turn exposed a issue with loadable modules. The > gnulib replacement functions are not exported to loadable > modules. Rather than trying to figure out the name sof all > gnulib functions & export them, just linkage all loadable > modules against libgnu.la statically. > > * daemon/Makefile.am: Remove linkage of libvirt_util.la > and libvirt_driver.la > * src/Makefile.am: Link driver modules against libgnu.la > * src/libvirt.c: Don't try to load modules which were > compiled out > * src/libvirt_private.syms: Export all other internal > symbols that are required by drivers Hum, weird, I tried to o a "make rpm" with that patch and got a linking error due to multiple definitions coming from gnulib: CCLD libvirt_lxc CCLD libvirt.la copying selected object files to avoid basename conflicts... ../gnulib/lib/.libs/libgnu.a(areadlink.o): In function `areadlink': /u/veillard/rpms/BUILD/libvirt-0.8.4/gnulib/lib/areadlink.c:58: multiple definition of `areadlink' ./.libs/libvirt_driver_phyp.a(areadlink.o):/u/veillard/rpms/BUILD/libvirt-0.8.4/gnulib/lib/areadlink.c:58: first defined here ../gnulib/lib/.libs/libgnu.a(base64.o): In function `base64_encode': /u/veillard/rpms/BUILD/libvirt-0.8.4/gnulib/lib/base64.c:79: multiple definition of `base64_encode' So patches 1-3 look fine to me but that one seems to still have a problem,