[opensource-dev] Review Request: CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS not honored when linking the viewer binary if -DLL_TESTS:BOOL=ON

Merov Linden merov at lindenlab.com
Wed Feb 9 22:20:43 PST 2011


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Review request for Viewer.


Summary
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>From Aleric's patch:

Setting CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS to "" because the tests "need" that is pretty hard measure.  Not only is it not necessary to do so, it also changes how the viewer is linked depending on a whether or not the tests are compiled and that is not good.

The reason that this was needed is that libgmock is underlinked (see http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Underlinking), which is not compatible with -Wl,--as-needed that is being used on linux. libgmock.so.0 needs a symbol that is defined in libgtest.so.o, but -lgtest was not passed to the linker when creating libgmock.so.0:

Underlinked (no libgtest.so.o):
$ objdump -p /usr/lib/libgmock.so.0 | grep NEEDED
  NEEDED               libstdc++.so.6
  NEEDED               libm.so.6
  NEEDED               libc.so.6
  NEEDED               libgcc_s.so.1

The solution is to wrap between -Wl,--no-as-needed -lgtest -Wl,--as-needed causing it to be added again. This is only needed on linux, since that the only platform that we use -Wl,--as-needed on. Moreover, we can just set GOOGLEMOCK_LIBRARIES to "gmock -Wl,--no-as-needed gtest -Wl,--as-needed" since that is only passed to TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES which only adds -l in front of 'things' that don't start with '-', to allow you do pass special flags like this.


This addresses bug STORM-981.
    http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-981


Diffs
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  doc/contributions.txt 27dae7b01a81 
  indra/cmake/GoogleMock.cmake 27dae7b01a81 
  indra/cmake/LLAddBuildTest.cmake 27dae7b01a81 

Diff: http://codereview.secondlife.com/r/147/diff


Testing
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Thanks,

Merov

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