[Splashy-devel] Enforcement of symbols on binary

[Luis]

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On 7/16/06, Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
> [ I'm CC'ing the bug number where I provided a patch to fix the files
>   used for static linking so we can remove our previous sed hackism from
>   Makefile.am ]
>
> Hello,
>
> Today I expent some time to understand why the default directfb-config
> doesn't worked and our previous hacked version does. After sometime, I
> figured out that both was passing two different group of options to
> compiler and realised that the official version doesn't provide the
> symbols name needed to be loaded by the libraries.
>
> To fix that I'm passing the need options to compiler byhand. Obviusly,
> this is wrong since we're using directfb-config tool to provide this
> information to us but it's a workaround to the problem.
>
> You can look bellow the needed options:
>
> ,----
> | ## HACK ALERT! - Otavio Salvador
> | # Express the symbols need for compilation so they will be forced inside of the binary
> | DFBHACK = $(DFB)  -Wl,-udirectfb_fbdev -Wl,-udirectfbwm_default -Wl,-uIDirectFBFont_Default -Wl,-uIDirectFBFont_FT2 \
> |                   -Wl,-uIDirectFBImageProvider_GIF -Wl,-uIDirectFBImageProvider_PNG -Wl,-uIDirectFBImageProvider_JPEG \
> |                   -Wl,-udirectfb_keyboard -Wl,-udirectfb_ati128 -Wl,-udirectfb_cyber5k -Wl,-udirectfb_i810 \
> |                   -Wl,-udirectfb_i830 -Wl,-udirectfb_mach64 -Wl,-udirectfb_neomagic -Wl,-udirectfb_nsc \
> |                   -Wl,-udirectfb_radeon -Wl,-udirectfb_savage -Wl,-udirectfb_sis315 -Wl,-udirectfb_tdfx
> `----
>
> Of course, this is just need when we're compiling staticaly.
>
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