There appears to be something different with Apple's clang compilers from Xcode (AppleClang) which can cause problems when building with hidden symbol visibility. Link failures will arise in certain projects because symbols (from libraries built by the same project) that should be visible but are not. Sometimes the issue occurs only on newer OS versions (I can build kde4-workspace with AppleClang on OS X 10.9 but the build fails with missing symbols on 10.13 and up). An example where this started happening recently: libkcddb . This fails to link with AppleClang, not just on my ageing 10.9.5 system but also on an up-to-date 10.13 system. I'll be attaching full build logs, but here's the link error: /usr/bin/clang++ -std=c++0x -fno-operator-names -fno-exceptions -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -Wno-gnu-zero-variadic-macro-arguments -Wall -Wextra -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat-security -Wno-long-long -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Woverloaded-virtual -Werror=return-type -Wvla -pedantic -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant -bundle -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -multiply_defined suppress -o kcm_cddb.so CMakeFiles/kcm_cddb.dir/cddbconfigwidget.cpp.o CMakeFiles/kcm_cddb.dir/kcmcddb.cpp.o CMakeFiles/kcm_cddb.dir/kcm_cddb_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o /opt/local/lib/libKF5KIOWidgets.5.47.0.dylib ../libkcddb/libKF5Cddb.5.0.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libKF5ConfigWidgets.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libKF5JobWidgets.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libKF5Completion.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libKF5WidgetsAddons.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libKF5KIOCore.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libKF5Auth.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/libexec/qt5/Library/Frameworks/QtWidgets.framework/QtWidgets /opt/local/lib/libKF5Service.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libKF5I18n.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libKF5CoreAddons.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/libexec/qt5/Library/Frameworks/QtConcurrent.framework/QtConcurrent /opt/local/libexec/qt5/Library/Frameworks/QtDBus.framework/QtDBus /opt/local/lib/libKF5Codecs.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libKF5ConfigGui.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/libexec/qt5/Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/QtGui /opt/local/libexec/qt5/Library/Frameworks/QtXml.framework/QtXml /opt/local/lib/libKF5ConfigCore.5.47.0.dylib /opt/local/libexec/qt5/Library/Frameworks/QtNetwork.framework/QtNetwork /opt/local/libexec/qt5/Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/QtCore Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "ConfigBase::setFreedbSubmitTransport(int)", referenced from: CDDBModule::checkSettings() const in kcmcddb.cpp.o "ConfigBase::~ConfigBase()", referenced from: KCDDB::Config::~Config() in kcmcddb.cpp.o "KCDDB::Sites::siteList()", referenced from: CDDBConfigWidget::showMirrorList() in cddbconfigwidget.cpp.o "KCDDB::Sites::Sites()", referenced from: CDDBConfigWidget::showMirrorList() in cddbconfigwidget.cpp.o "KCDDB::Config::Config()", referenced from: CDDBModule::CDDBModule(QWidget*, QList<QVariant> const&) in kcmcddb.cpp.o CDDBModule::defaults() in kcmcddb.cpp.o CDDBModule::checkSettings() const in kcmcddb.cpp.o CDDBModule::load() in kcmcddb.cpp.o "ConfigBase::emailAddress() const", referenced from: CDDBModule::checkSettings() const in kcmcddb.cpp.o "ConfigBase::smtpHostname() const", referenced from: CDDBModule::checkSettings() const in kcmcddb.cpp.o "ConfigBase::smtpUsername() const", referenced from: CDDBModule::updateWidgetsFromConfig(KCDDB::Config const&) in kcmcddb.cpp.o "ConfigBase::freedbSubmitTransport() const", referenced from: CDDBModule::checkSettings() const in kcmcddb.cpp.o "ConfigBase::replyTo() const", referenced from: CDDBModule::checkSettings() const in kcmcddb.cpp.o ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 This error goes away when using a stock clang compiler, for instance clang-4.0 or clang-5.0 from MacPorts. The symbols in question are defined in sites.cpp and in the autogenerated configbase.cpp (auto-generated files are identical for the different compilers I tested). Looking at the build logs there are no differences in the compiler arguments between the various builds, other than in the build directory path. Yet the Sites::siteList() symbol is visible in the build by stock clang (5.0.2) and not in the one by AppleClang: 000000000001bdc0 T __ZN5KCDDB5Sites8siteListEv vs. 000000000001bc80 t __ZN5KCDDB5Sites8siteListEv I have only seen this with KDE code for now, never elsewhere.
Created attachment 116293 [details] libkcddb 18.08.3 build log with AppleClang 602
Created attachment 116294 [details] build log with clang 5.0.2 from MacPorts
Created attachment 116295 [details] AppleClang build commands for configpage.cpp, sites.cpp and the failed link command formatted for side-by-side comparison
Created attachment 116296 [details] clang build commands for configpage.cpp, sites.cpp and the failed link command formatted for side-by-side comparison
Created attachment 116297 [details] sites.cpp preprocessed by AppleClang
Created attachment 116298 [details] sites.cpp preprocessed by clang 5.0.2
Moving this to KConfig because it looks like kconfig_compiler_kf5 fails with AppleClang, generating empty export macros: ``` > diff -u libkcddb-18.08.3/build-*clang/libkcddb/kcddb_export.h --- libkcddb-18.08.3/build-appleclang/libkcddb/kcddb_export.h 2018-11-14 00:04:58.000000000 +0100 +++ libkcddb-18.08.3/build-clang/libkcddb/kcddb_export.h 2018-11-13 23:18:12.000000000 +0100 @@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ # ifndef KCDDB_EXPORT # ifdef KF5Cddb_EXPORTS /* We are building this library */ -# define KCDDB_EXPORT +# define KCDDB_EXPORT __attribute__((visibility("default"))) # else /* We are using this library */ -# define KCDDB_EXPORT +# define KCDDB_EXPORT __attribute__((visibility("default"))) # endif # endif # ifndef KCDDB_NO_EXPORT -# define KCDDB_NO_EXPORT +# define KCDDB_NO_EXPORT __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))) # endif #endif ``` Why this happens only for certain projects is a mystery to me (as is the way this command can know what compiler syntax to generate).
Apologies, my initial hunch was right, this is an ECM issue. See https://phabricator.kde.org/D16894
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