NetworkManager.ver needs to whitelist symbols needed by device,
settings, and ppp plugin. Fix the generator script to also allow
using c_siphash_*() symbols. These are needed by nm_hash_*().
Without this, wifi device plugin is broken.
Fixes: ccf36ff4ce
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Thus, src/NetworkManager.ver-orig is unused an gets easily out
of date.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.
