Even Gentoo disables this plugin since before 0.9.8 release
of NetworkManager. Time to say goodbye.
If somebody happens to show up to maintain it, we may resurrect it
later.
If "$distro_plugins=ifnet" was set, configure.ac would use that
to autodetect --with-hostname-persist=gentoo. Replace that autodetect
part by checking for /etc/gentoo-release file.
On ppc archtecture the "nm_bt_vtable_network_server" symbol in the small
objects section instead of .bss, represencted by a "S" letter. Also
include "G" which is an equivalent thing for initialized data. We don't
seem to have such objects at the moment, but when we do it could result
in a nasty surprise.
When building with -flto, we need to use linker plugins.
In case of binutils' nm, it means to prefer gcc-nm if
available.
Like for ranlib and ar, prefer gcc-nm.
- replace AC_PATH_TOOL() by AC_CHECK_TOOLS(). That is consistent
with what we do for ar,ranlib and suggested on bgo#783311.
- instead of using the variable $BINUTILS_NM, replace it by
$NM, which is more common according to bgo#783311.
- Keep recognizing $BINUTILS_NM environment, which was introduced
by commit 8bc88bcc7c. This is purely to keep previous build
scripts working. Originally I named it "$BINUTILS_NM" because
using $NM in NetworkManager seemed confusing. But well...
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620052https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782525https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783311
`nm` is used by "tools/create-exports-NetworkManager.sh" script.
Alloc configuring an explicit path during configure.
BINUTILS_NM=/usr/bin/nm ./configure
Generating "src/NetworkManager.ver" each time seems to work well.
Thus, src/NetworkManager.ver-orig is unused an gets easily out
of date. Just remove it. It's not useful anymore.
Moving the PPP manager to a separate plugin that is loaded when needed
has the advantage of slightly reducing memory footprint and makes it
possible to install the PPP support only where needed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773482
This adds 0.4 seconds to the build time.
You can disable it by setting $NM_BUILD_NO_CREATE_EXPORTS environment
variable. This is useful in the unexpected case that the script
is broken.
Or, if you just want to use a different, non-generated version-script.
Or, if you want to save 0.4 seconds build-time.
- include symbols from the "B" section.
- improve the script, to use libNetworkManager.a instead
of the NetworkManager binary. The former is before stripping
symbols.
- this allows the linker to drop unused symbols via link-time optimization
or with --gc-sections:
git clean -fdx
./autogen.sh --enable-ld-gc --enable-ifcfg-rh --enable-ifupdown \
--enable-ifnet --enable-ibft --enable-teamdctl --enable-wifi \
--with-modem-manager-1 --with-ofono --with-more-asserts \
--with-more-logging
make -j20
strip ./src/NetworkManager
gives 2822840 vs. 2625960 bytes (-7%).
- this also gives more control over the symbols that are used by the
plugins. Yes, it means if you modify a plugin to use a new symbols,
you have to extend NetworkManager.ver file.
You can run the script to create the version file:
$ ./tools/create-exports-NetworkManager.sh update
but be sure that your current configuration enables all plugins
and debugging options to actually use all symbols that are in use.
- If you compile with certain plugins enabled, you could theoretically
re-compile NetworkManager to expose less symbols. Try:
$ ./tools/create-exports-NetworkManager.sh build
- note that we have `make check` tests to ensure that all used
symbols of the plugins can be found. So, it should not be possible
to accidentally forget to expose a symbol.
