Brad King 0f150b69d3 AIX: Explicitly compute shared object exports for both XL and GNU ...

On AIX, symbols in shared objects must be exported in order to be
visible to dependents (similar to Windows).  The AIX linker provides a
`-bE:...` option to specify a file listing symbols to be exported.
Compilers offer some features to help:

* When the XL compiler is invoked with its `-qmkshrobj`/`-G` options for
  creating shared objects (without/with runtime linking), it recognizes
  when no explicit `-bE:...` linker option is specified and runs a
  `CreateExportList` tool provided with the compiler to compute one from
  the object files.  Since commit d468a2c2cb (XL: Avoid copying archives
  into shared libraries that link them, 2011-04-07, v2.8.5~153^2) CMake
  runs `CreateExportList` explicitly to ensure it only looks at the object
  files and not any library files.

* When the GNU compiler is invoked with its `-shared` option for creating
  shared objects, its internal `collect2` tool recognizes when no explicit
  `-bE:...` linker option is specified and computes one itself from the
  object files.  However, it sometimes includes extra symbols such as
  `.__init_aix_libgcc_cxa_atexit`.

Introduce our own internal `ExportImportList` script to compute symbol
export lists from object files.  Use a basic implementation for now: it
can be extended as needed later.  Update our shared library creation
rules to run the script explicitly for both the XL and GNU compilers.

Issue: #19163

2019-07-15 13:27:16 -04:00

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AIX: Explicitly compute shared object exports for both XL and GNU

2019-07-15 13:27:16 -04:00