[Fresco-devel] Re: [Fresco-changes] Fresco/config compiler.m4,1.3,1.4 so.m4,1.2,1.3

Hi Tobias,

I'm glad you fixed that many problems at once, but...

Tobias Hunger wrote:

>  * Remove -rdynamic flag: We need gcc > 3.0 now and I can't find any 
>       documentation on this flag anymore (closes bug79)

...removing things you don't understand is always a bad idea. Ask the people
who put them in to be sure the change is correct.

In this case it is probably not correct. Even though the man page doesn't
document this option, it exists, and does something: it is passed down to
the linker, which, on linux systems, corresponds to the option '--export-dynamic',
which means that all symbols are to be put into the global symbol table.
That has the effect that plugins can reference back those symbols, which
is sometimes needed.

Regards,
		Stefan