On Thursday 07 May 2015 09:22:26 Robert Ramey wrote:
The original question suggested that if a tester changed the jam file so that the switch gcc visibility=hidden was enabled then tests would pass.
I did not suggest that the tests would immediately pass. But I would like to have such tester - for users to see which libraries have problems, and for library maintainers to be able to fix those problems.
My point is that his is very unlikely which is why it isn't being done.
I'm trying to build 1.58 with visibility=hidden right now and so far the only library that's failing to build is Wave. I didn't run tests yet, but the start looks promising to me.
If visibility=hidden is to be supported (and I think it should be) library source code will have to be updated.
Sure.