[vlc-devel] [PATCH] configure.ac: enforce compilation check for wordexp

[David Fuhrmann]

Hello all,

If I recall correctly, in the past we discussed the situation that a symbol might not be available in the oldest OS version we support, but it was introduced later on and is available in the current version we are compiling on.
This is a problem which is specific to release building of VLC, which can be considered a special use case.

Now the situation seems different, because the symbol seems to be not available at all on iOS. Please correct me, but any developer, building for iOS, will now face this problem and cannot build VLC anymore without extra (to be adapted wrapper scripts).

BR. David

> Am 02.12.2020 um 12:40 schrieb Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
> 
> Konstantin,
> 
> As a reminder, the TC already entertained that same problem on the same OS, for different symbols, in February.
> 
> Of the three considerable options, adjusting the automatic feature tests was, as I recall, the one to be unanimously rejected. I would appreciate if people didn't raise nigh-identical questions to the TC, even if they don't like the previous decisions or recommendations.
> 
> Br,
> 
> Le 2 décembre 2020 10:55:46 GMT+02:00, Konstantin Pavlov <thresh at videolan.org <mailto:thresh at videolan.org>> a écrit :
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 09:42:05AM +0100, Alexandre Janniaux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 09:11:43AM +0100, Alexandre Janniaux wrote:
>  The point of those SDK is to bring backward compatibility while
>  allowing users to dynamically probe for version and function.
> 
>  This __is__ similar to what dlsym does, except it's using weak
>  linking instead.
> I'd like to find a consensus on those linkage issues given that it
> went to TC once, it is breaking the CI since weeks, and is not the
> only occurence we'll find (I had send similar patches for Android
> too).
> 
> Maybe we can schedule a meeting to discuss that?
> 
> Please send a request to a TC if not yet.
> 
> Breaking CI for weeks when a trivial patch is available is not great.
> 
> Thank you
> 
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