libc symbol versioning difficulties with iconv integration

[Daniel Eischen]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I'm trying to integrate the result of my last SoC work to the base system but 
> I'm facing some difficulties with libc symbol versioning. I placed the iconv 
> code into an iconv subdirectory inside src/lib/libc and I added a Makefile 
> and a symbol map, just like another parts of libc do but when I try to 
> compile this stuff, I get this error in the linking phase:
>
> building shared library libc.so.7
> /usr/bin/ld: libc.so.7: undefined versioned symbol namefts_open at FBSD_1.0
> /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
> *** Error code 1
>
> I have no idea what's going wrong because I did everything exactly in the 
> same way as another components do. I don't know why does it break at 
> fts_open(), which is unrelated to iconv, not even used in the iconv code. If 
> I just unhook the iconv part fromt he build, everything goes fine. Any ideas?
>
> Patch is here: http://kovesdan.org/patches/iconv-libc.diff

I don't really see anything wrong with your Makefile or Symbol.map.
Do you have any other local changes that could be causing problems?

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