[Libreoffice] [PATCH] libstdc++ STL debug (was: Re: Usefulness of --enable-dbgutil)

[Caolán McNamara]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:34 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
> of course what also needs to be prevented is linking against system
> libraries that expose STL in their interface; a quick search found me
> cppunit and graphite; the mozilla/nss stuff doesn't seem to expose STL.

This is basically the scenario that caused the trouble. Its not
incompatibility between debugging stl in one of our modules vs another
one but incompatibility between, in practice, non-debugging system
cppunit and debugging stl in our code, i.e. stuff that uses cppunit
headers, runs the debugging-stl destructors on something created by
non-debugging-stl. Inlines resizing/deleting stuff was one problematic
one IIRC.

+    # cppunit and graphite expose STL in public headers

Quite probably need to also handle the mysql connector as well, maybe a
few more, hunspell ? Gets a bit unwieldy fast to maintain a list in
configure of stuff that uses stl.

For the internal cppunit and graphite probably need to pass
-D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG into *their* build systems as well, no ? The edge-cases
that needed to be handled seemed to pile up sufficiently high to make it
hard to know if it was all handled correctly :-(

C.