[Development] Symbol clashes with static Qt libraries

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 05:46:44 PDT Simon Hausmann wrote:
> I favor (a) along with the existing test, because of the issues Giuseppe
> outlined with (b) and I'm sceptical about how realistic (c) is for us.

We will not be able to get (c) working everywhere. I remember trying objcopy 
some years ago messing with symbol properties and I know I wasn't successful. 
I don't remember what I was trying, though, so this is not a showstopper for 
our current problem. Just don't get your hopes up.

I think we need (a) and we can apply (c) if possible.

> If we wanted to make this test work again (and produce errors with your
> logging category examples), then we would need a configuration in the CI
> that builds on Linux without ELF visibility. At least that's one of the
> ways it could be done with minimal effort.

Why can't the test run on .a files?
 
> It however does not protect us from the issue on Windows and macOS, but it
> covers the cross-platform code.
 
nm exists on both too. We won't get it on MSVC, though.

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