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Bug #73062 Test for -fvisibility=hidden support fails with certain $CC
Submitted: 2016-09-10 14:57 UTC Modified: 2021-10-05 15:15 UTC
From: michael at orlitzky dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: *Compile Issues
PHP Version: 7.1Git-2016-09-10 (Git) OS:
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 [2016-09-10 14:57 UTC] michael at orlitzky dot com 
Description:
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There is a check in configure.in that looks for -fvisibility=hidden support when the user is building with GCC:

  dnl activate some gcc specific optimizations for gcc >= 4
  if test "$GCC" = "yes"; then
    case $host_alias in
    *darwin*)
      GCC_MAJOR_VERSION=`$CC -dumpversion | /usr/bin/sed -nE '1s/([[0-9]]+)\.[[0-$
      ;;
    *)
      GCC_MAJOR_VERSION=`$CC --version | $SED -n '1s/[[^0-9]]*//;1s/\..*//;1p'`
      ;;
    esac
    if test $GCC_MAJOR_VERSION -ge 4; then
      CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fvisibility=hidden"
    fi
  fi

The idea is to parse off the major version number from the end of the "gcc --version" output, and see if it's 4 or more. However, the regular expression in question doesn't work when $CC is a little weird. This is the expected result, with a vanilla GCC:

  $CC --version | sed -n '1s/[[^0-9]]*//;1s/\..*//;1p'
  4

But this is what happens when my CC is set:

  CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
  $ $CC --version | sed -n '1s/[[^0-9]]*//;1s/\..*//;1p'
  x6_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (Gentoo Hardened 4

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 [2016-09-10 22:47 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2016-09-10 22:47 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Um, wouldn't it be better to check for -fvisibility=hidden
support instead of the GCC version, anyway?
 [2016-09-10 22:58 UTC] michael at orlitzky dot com 
Good idea =)

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2124
 [2018-02-13 20:37 UTC] aixtools at felt dot demon dot nl 
FYI.

The current test in php-7.2.2 gives a false pass (aka yes) when the compile is done with -c. Without -c the flag fails.

System AIX, complier xlc

root@x065:[/data/prj/php/php-7.2.2]xlc_r -c -I/opt/include -I/opt/include/mysql -qmaxmem=-1 -qarch=pwr5  -fvisibility=hidden -I/opt/include x.c
root@x065:[/data/prj/php/php-7.2.2]xlc_r -I/opt/include -I/opt/include/mysql -qmaxmem=-1 -qarch=pwr5  -fvisibility=hidden -I/opt/include x.c
ld: 0706-005 Cannot find or open file: visibility=hidden
        ld:fopen(): A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
 [2018-02-14 14:03 UTC] michael at orlitzky dot com 
> The current test in php-7.2.2 gives a false pass (aka yes) when the compile is done with -c. Without -c the flag fails.

Is that causing a problem building PHP? I'm not familiar with xlc, but Google tells me that "-c" means "don't link," so the build should fail anyway with "-c" in your CFLAGS.

In any case, the macro is only supposed to check whether or not "-fvisibility=hidden" works with your current CC/CFLAGS. If you have CFLAGS="-c" and if the test (incorrectly) passes, that should still be ok since everything will be compiled with "-c -fvisibility=hidden". Unless it isn't; like I said I don't know anything about xlc =)
 [2021-10-05 14:25 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Feedback -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2021-10-05 14:25 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Michael's PR had been merged, so I think this issue is resolved.
Or are there still issues with any of the actively supported PHP
versions[1]?

[1] <https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php>
 [2021-10-05 15:03 UTC] michael at orlitzky dot com 
It's fixed. Thanks!
 [2021-10-05 15:15 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Feedback +Status: Closed
 
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