[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 7/7] configure.ac: static link LLVM by default

[Michel Dänzer]

On 05/10/17 12:19 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> 
> A while back Michel reported that LLVM has symbol versioning to avoid
> symbol collisions. Based on observations LLVM 5.0 is the first upstream
> version to actually has it.

Not exactly. Adam Jackson originally added symbol versioning in LLVM 3.6
(in SVN r214418), but it was only effective when LLVM was built with
autotools. As of 5.0, it's effective with cmake as well.


> Since symbol collisions do come up again and again (fortunately not so
> often) let's flip the switch back to static.

It seems a bit weird to make this change now, that LLVM is solving the
issue for good. But I don't feel strongly about it.


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