[asterisk-dev] [Code Review]: Make weak reference support linux and MacOSX only.

rmudgett reviewboard at asterisk.org
Sat Dec 10 15:18:48 CST 2011



> On Dec. 9, 2011, 3:14 p.m., Kevin Fleming wrote:
> > Other than some comment changes, this looks good to me.
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> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>     Weak references also work on the *BSDs, and therefore, these platforms need some support in configure.ac.
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>     Beyond this, we also need to change menuselect's configure.ac at the same time, because that one translates a lack of weak reference support from "use" to "depend".

A corresponding menuselect configure change will be made of course.  I am delaying committing this change to allow more review time.


- rmudgett


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On Dec. 9, 2011, 3:44 p.m., rmudgett wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 9, 2011, 3:44 p.m.)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers, Kevin Fleming, Olle E Johansson, and Tilghman Lesher.
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> Summary
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> Weak references is not portable and either does not work or does not work as expected on other platforms.
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> Primarily support weak references on linux platforms because the feature just works.
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> Allow weak symbol support on MacOS/X platforms only because there is active community support for it.  However, MacOS/X seems to break weak symbols for each new version.
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> This addresses bugs ASTERISK-18728 and ASTERISK-18950.
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-18728
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-18950
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> Diffs
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>   /branches/1.8/configure UNKNOWN 
>   /branches/1.8/configure.ac 347865 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1617/diff
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> Testing
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> My linux box now configures for HAVE_ATTRIBUTE_weakref instead of HAVE_ATTRIBUTE_weak which is Darwin specific. 
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> Thanks,
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> rmudgett
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