From e60534b03bc6877bd13858dcdcccec53897eb85f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:43:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: Document arguments of --enable-symbol-versions. (cherry picked from commit 8a25ba024d55610c448c6e4f1400a00bae51b493) (cherry picked from commit 44a5c1374e9622054a20dc48c02bd146cbd51ec0) --- INSTALL | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 779e717b..fb83ff07 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -455,10 +455,45 @@ XZ Utils Installation sandboxing. If no Capsicum support is found, configure will give an error. - --enable-symbol-versions - Use symbol versioning for liblzma. This is enabled by - default on GNU/Linux, other GNU-based systems, and - FreeBSD. + --enable-symbol-versions[=VARIANT] + Use symbol versioning for liblzma shared library. + This is enabled by default on GNU/Linux (glibc only), + other GNU-based systems, and FreeBSD. + + Symbol versioning is never used for static liblzma. This + option is ignored when not building a shared library. + + Supported VARIANTs: + + no Disable symbol versioning. This is the + same as using --disable-symbol-versions. + + auto Autodetect between "no", "linux", + and "generic". + + yes Autodetect between "linux" and + "generic". This forces symbol + versioning to be used when + building a shared library. + + generic Generic version is the default for + FreeBSD and GNU/Linux on MicroBlaze. + + This is also used on GNU/Linux when + building with NVIDIA HPC Compiler + because the compiler doesn't support + the features required for the "linux" + variant below. + + linux Special version for GNU/Linux (glibc + only). This adds a few extra symbol + versions for compatibility with binaries + that have been linked against a liblzma + version that has been patched with + "xz-5.2.2-compat-libs.patch" from + RHEL/CentOS 7. That patch was used + by some build tools outside of + RHEL/CentOS 7 too. --enable-debug This enables the assert() macro and possibly some other