[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] libnftnl: add patch to avoid symbol conflict

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sun Aug 17 07:12:11 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > When ELF binaries and shared libraries are used, the internal
 > functions of libnftnl such as xfree() are not visible to the outside
 > world (their visibility is 'hidden'). Therefore, the fact that other
 > programs (especially nftables) may have symbols with the same name
 > does not cause any problem.

 > However, when doing static linking on a non-ELF platform (such as
 > Blackfin, which uses the FLAT binary format), there is no way of
 > encoding this visibility. Therefore, the xfree() symbols of libnftnl
 > becomes visible to the outside world, causing a conflict with the
 > xfree() symbol defined by nftables.

 > To solve this, this patch renames the libnftnl xfree() function to
 > libnftnl_xfree().

 > This commit fixes a problem seen after building nftables statically on
 > Blackfin. This problem was seen after the previous patch fixing the
 > autobuilder failure:

 >   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/98b/98b707ffdeeb1cda94b7c1019ef29cf5fd7db8bf/

 > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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