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Re: [libvirt] namespace clean shared libraries


From: Wido den Hollander
Subject: Re: [libvirt] namespace clean shared libraries
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:14:27 +0200
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On 08/02/2012 01:37 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 01:18:12PM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote:
On 07/08/2012 07:51 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
If its better to just do it in libvirt config.h, then we
can do that too

Yes, doing '#define foo libvirt_foo' in config.h is the preferred way
of achieving a namespace clean shared library.

There are two ways to generate these #defines:

1) You collect manually, on various systems, the set of symbols that you
    don't want to clash with symbols from other shared libraries. You need
    to do this on various systems, because gnulib may define functions
    'rpl_fflush' or 'dprintf' on some systems and not on others.

2) You collect, from a set of header files, the set of symbols that you
    want to have exported, and process all other symbols with
      '#define foo libvirt_foo'

    This approach is more robust, but requires to compile all *.o files
    twice: Once with the initial settings (no #define), and once for real.

    This approach is implemented in libunistring. Look at the config.h rule
    in this Makefile.am [1]. There are two auxiliary scripts: 'declared.sh' [2]
    extracts the symbols from a .h file (assuming a particular coding style).
    'exported.sh' [3] extracts te symbols of a .o file.


I don't want to rush anything, but I see that libvirt 0.10 will be
coming out soon and I don't think this has been corrected?

Right now this means that libvirt is not usable on Ubuntu 12.04
systems when you want to use the secrets of libvirt.

Is it feasible to have this fixed before 0.10 comes out?

Try applying this patch to your source tree

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6b189db..4f906bb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2876,6 +2876,10 @@ test "x$lv_cv_static_analysis" = xyes && t=1
  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([STATIC_ANALYSIS], [$t],
    [Define to 1 when performing static analysis.])

+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([isbase64],[gnulib_isbase64],[Hack to avoid symbol clash])
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([base64_encode],[gnulib_base64_encode],[Hack to avoid 
symbol clash])
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([base64_encode_alloc],[gnulib_base64_encode_alloc],[Hack to 
avoid symbol clash])
+
  AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/Makefile include/Makefile docs/Makefile \
           docs/schemas/Makefile \
           gnulib/lib/Makefile \

Yes, that works for me. The secrets are working on Ubuntu 12.04.

Thanks,

Wido



Regards,
Daniel





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