1 # visibility.m4 serial 4 (gettext-0.18.2)
2 dnl Copyright (C) 2005, 2008, 2010-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
4 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
5 dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
9 dnl Tests whether the compiler supports the command-line option
10 dnl -fvisibility=hidden and the function and variable attributes
11 dnl __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) and
12 dnl __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))).
13 dnl Does *not* test for __visibility__("protected") - which has tricky
14 dnl semantics (see the 'vismain' test in glibc) and does not exist e.g. on
16 dnl Does *not* test for __visibility__("internal") - which has processor
17 dnl dependent semantics.
18 dnl Does *not* test for #pragma GCC visibility push(hidden) - which is
19 dnl "really only recommended for legacy code".
20 dnl Set the variable CFLAG_VISIBILITY.
21 dnl Defines and sets the variable HAVE_VISIBILITY.
23 dnl Modified to fit with PCRE build environment by Cristian RodrÃguez.
25 AC_DEFUN([PCRE_VISIBILITY],
27 AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])
31 if test -n "$GCC"; then
32 dnl First, check whether -Werror can be added to the command line, or
33 dnl whether it leads to an error because of some other option that the
34 dnl user has put into $CC $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS.
35 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether the -Werror option is usable])
36 AC_CACHE_VAL([pcre_cv_cc_vis_werror], [
37 pcre_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
38 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror"
40 [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[]], [[]])],
41 [pcre_cv_cc_vis_werror=yes],
42 [pcre_cv_cc_vis_werror=no])
43 CFLAGS="$pcre_save_CFLAGS"])
44 AC_MSG_RESULT([$pcre_cv_cc_vis_werror])
45 dnl Now check whether visibility declarations are supported.
46 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for simple visibility declarations])
47 AC_CACHE_VAL([pcre_cv_cc_visibility], [
48 pcre_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
49 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fvisibility=hidden"
50 dnl We use the option -Werror and a function dummyfunc, because on some
51 dnl platforms (Cygwin 1.7) the use of -fvisibility triggers a warning
52 dnl "visibility attribute not supported in this configuration; ignored"
53 dnl at the first function definition in every compilation unit, and we
54 dnl don't want to use the option in this case.
55 if test $pcre_cv_cc_vis_werror = yes; then
56 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror"
60 [[extern __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) int hiddenvar;
61 extern __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) int exportedvar;
62 extern __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) int hiddenfunc (void);
63 extern __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) int exportedfunc (void);
64 void dummyfunc (void) {}
67 [pcre_cv_cc_visibility=yes],
68 [pcre_cv_cc_visibility=no])
69 CFLAGS="$pcre_save_CFLAGS"])
70 AC_MSG_RESULT([$pcre_cv_cc_visibility])
71 if test $pcre_cv_cc_visibility = yes; then
72 VISIBILITY_CFLAGS="-fvisibility=hidden"
73 VISIBILITY_CXXFLAGS="-fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
75 AC_DEFINE(PCRE_EXP_DECL, [extern __attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))], [to make a symbol visible])
76 AC_DEFINE(PCRE_EXP_DEFN, [__attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))], [to make a symbol visible])
77 AC_DEFINE(PCRE_EXP_DATA_DEFN, [__attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))], [to make a symbol visible])
78 AC_DEFINE(PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL, [extern __attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))], [to make a symbol visible])
79 AC_DEFINE(PCREPOSIX_EXP_DEFN, [extern __attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))], [to make a symbol visible])
80 AC_DEFINE(PCRECPP_EXP_DECL, [extern __attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))], [to make a symbol visible])
81 AC_DEFINE(PCRECPP_EXP_DEFN, [__attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))], [to make a symbol visible])
84 AC_SUBST([VISIBILITY_CFLAGS])
85 AC_SUBST([VISIBILITY_CXXFLAGS])
86 AC_SUBST([HAVE_VISIBILITY])
87 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([HAVE_VISIBILITY], [$HAVE_VISIBILITY],
88 [Define to 1 if the compiler supports simple visibility declarations.])