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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 16 novembre 2020, 17:33:25 EET Alexandre Janniaux a écrit :
>  I agree that the same rule should apply to other
> functions as well instead of the ugly autotools exports.

No. Again, this same scenario has been argued many times over. The current 
rules are as good as it gets for those identifiers that are required to be 
symbols. If you don't want such symbol to be available, then well, duh 
obviously, don't make it available at link time.

Of  course calling dlsym() would be cleaner, than what autoconf does, but that 
would only work for native builds.

(It's a different story for those "functions" that are *not* required to be 
symbols.)

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Rémi Denis-Courmont