From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:22:13 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Enable symbol versioning with the GNU gold linker.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.7b~43
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef32f487d746dbcdc00c2c357ebe3cf2a68d8a28;p=thirdparty%2Flibtool.git

Enable symbol versioning with the GNU gold linker.

* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_LINKER_SHLIBS): Accept 'GNU gold'
in the version string.
* NEWS, THANKS: Update.
Report by Peter Fritzsche.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3c984849c..3f19b9013 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@
 
 2009-11-24  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
+	Enable symbol versioning with the GNU gold linker.
+	* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_LINKER_SHLIBS): Accept 'GNU gold'
+	in the version string.
+	* NEWS, THANKS: Update.
+	Report by Peter Fritzsche.
+
 	Tighten regex for Portland C++ compiler for version 10.
 	* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_LANG_CXX_CONFIG) [linux]:
 	Match a dot after version 1 through 5, so 10 and up don't match,
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 80f04133b..7087cdd40 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ New in 2.2.8 2009-??-??: git version 2.2.7a, Libtool team:
   - Fix ancient bug where "-Wc," was turned into "$wl" (typically "-Wl,")
     when using the compiler driver to link programs. Now "-Wc," is stripped
     just as it is when linking libraries through the compiler driver.
+  - Symbol versioning works with the GNU gold linker now.
 
 * Miscellaneous changes:
 
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 004dbd877..c8acd6783 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@
   Paul Biggar			paul.biggar@gmail.com
   Paul Eggert			eggert@twinsun.com
   Peter Eisentraut		peter_e@gmx.net
+  Peter Fritzsche		peter.fritzsche@gmx.de
   Peter Jeremy			peterjeremy@optushome.com.au
   Peter Kjellerstedt		peter.kjellerstedt@axis.com
   Rainer Emrich			r.emrich@de.tecosim.com
diff --git a/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 b/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
index 65dd0274e..9abd14783 100644
--- a/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
@@ -4339,6 +4339,7 @@ dnl Note also adjust exclude_expsyms for C++ above.
     fi
     supports_anon_versioning=no
     case `$LD -v 2>&1` in
+      *GNU\ gold*) supports_anon_versioning=yes ;;
       *\ [[01]].* | *\ 2.[[0-9]].* | *\ 2.10.*) ;; # catch versions < 2.11
       *\ 2.11.93.0.2\ *) supports_anon_versioning=yes ;; # RH7.3 ...
       *\ 2.11.92.0.12\ *) supports_anon_versioning=yes ;; # Mandrake 8.2 ...