[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] use -fvisibility=hidden

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 07:25:09PM +0200, wbrana wrote:
> -fvisibility=hidden makes executables smaller with smaller load time

> --- configure.orig	2012-08-05 19:15:27.000000000 +0200
> +++ configure	2012-08-05 19:16:00.078697510 +0200
> @@ -2608,7 +2608,7 @@
>    elif test "$cc_vendor" != "gnu" ; then
>      CFLAGS="-O2 $_march $_mcpu $_pipe"
>    else
> -    CFLAGS="-O4 $_march $_mcpu $_pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer"
> +    CFLAGS="-O4 $_march $_mcpu $_pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility=hidden"

That is the GNU only way for something that is supported on many more
platforms by using a linker script (with -Wl,--version-script,).
Only disadvantage is that older binutils versions were broken and
ignored it for executables.