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x11/libwacom: work around lld 13 no longer supporting symver tricks
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Though x11/libwacom was not yet built during the exp-run for clang/llvm
13 (see bug 258209), due to some other dependencies not being available
yet, I noticed that it failed to build with clang 13, or more
specifically this is due to a behavior change in lld 13:

  ...
  [ 33% 10/30] cc  -o generate-hwdb generate-hwdb.p/tools_generate-hwdb.c.o -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined -fstack-protector-strong -O2 -pipe -g -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/' -Wl,-rpath-link,/wrkdirs/share/dim/ports/x11/libwacom/work/libwacom-1.5/_build/ -Wl,--start-group libwacom.so.2.6.1 /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/local/lib/libintl.so -Wl,--end-group
  [ 36% 11/30] /usr/local/bin/meson --internal exe --capture 65-libwacom.hwdb -- /wrkdirs/share/dim/ports/x11/libwacom/work/libwacom-1.5/_build/generate-hwdb
  FAILED: 65-libwacom.hwdb
  /usr/local/bin/meson --internal exe --capture 65-libwacom.hwdb -- /wrkdirs/share/dim/ports/x11/libwacom/work/libwacom-1.5/_build/generate-hwdb
  --- stderr ---

Unfortunately the meson build process doesn't really show you why it
failed, but it turns out that running the 'generate-hwdb' command
segfaults:

  Starting program: /wrkdirs/share/dim/ports/x11/libwacom/work/libwacom-1.5/_build/generate-hwdb

  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  libwacom_add_match (device=device@entry=0x801031320, newmatch=0x0) at ../libwacom/libwacom.c:943
  943           device->matches[device->nmatches - 1] = libwacom_match_ref(newmatch);
  (gdb) bt
  #0  libwacom_add_match (device=device@entry=0x801031320, newmatch=0x0) at ../libwacom/libwacom.c:943
  #1  0x000000080024fc7d in libwacom_matchstr_to_match (device=device@entry=0x801031320, matchstr=<optimized out>) at ../libwacom/libwacom-database.c:207
  #2  0x000000080024e313 in libwacom_parse_tablet_keyfile (db=0x8010365a0, datadir=0x200b70 "/wrkdirs/share/dim/ports/x11/libwacom/work/libwacom-1.5/data", filename=<optimized out>) at ../libwacom/libwacom-database.c:652
  #3  load_tablet_files (db=0x8010365a0, datadir=0x200b70 "/wrkdirs/share/dim/ports/x11/libwacom/work/libwacom-1.5/data") at ../libwacom/libwacom-database.c:865
  #4  libwacom_database_new_for_path (datadir=0x200b70 "/wrkdirs/share/dim/ports/x11/libwacom/work/libwacom-1.5/data") at ../libwacom/libwacom-database.c:959
  #5  0x00000000002021b6 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x801036630) at ../tools/generate-hwdb.c:131

What happens is that an internal function 'libwacom_match_new' is
supposed to be called, which returns a new 'WacomMatch' object. But
instead, it calls a empty stub which returns NULL, resulting in this
segfault. The empty stub was added as a rather nasty upstream hack to
"Alias the accidentally exposed ABI into different functions", in
linuxwacom/libwacom@b9961db:

> A special "trick" is used here to hide the ABI from new versions:
> Usually when defining multiple versioned symbols, one would define one as the
> default one with @@
>     .symver _foo1,foo@VERSION1
>     .symver _foo2,foo@@version2 <-- default one

> By leaving out the default one, ld doesn't know which one to link to and
> fails with an unresolved symbol. rtld however can still figure it out, so
> anything compiled will continue to work. This way we can make a symbol
> disappear from the library for new builds but have old builds continue to
> work with the new version.

Unfortunately this trick/hack does not work anymore with lld 13, since
llvm/llvm-project@66d44304921, ("[ELF] Combine
foo@v1 and foo with the same versionId if both are defined "). The idea
behind the hack is to have the linker call the 'real' libwacom_match_new
function whenever it is called from inside the library itself, but any
external callers get the stubbed version which doesn't really do
anything.

I think libwacom should have used a different approach here, but just
renaming those accidentally exposed internal functions to something
different. Then the tricks with .symver are completely unnecessary. Here
I added a patch that is as simple as possible, which adds #defines for
two affected functions in libwacomint.h, renaming then from
'libwacom_xxx' to 'libwacom_internal_xxx'. This does not affect the
corresponding exposed functions in the libwacom.so, and makes the
'generate-hwdb' command work OK again. I also ran the complete libwacom
test suite, including the deprecated functions test, and it works fine.

PR:		258463
Approved by:	zeising (maintainer)
MFH:		2021Q4
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--- libwacom/libwacomint.h.orig 2020-06-25 22:38:10 UTC
+++ libwacom/libwacomint.h
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ WacomStylus* libwacom_stylus_unref(WacomStylus *stylus
WacomMatch* libwacom_match_ref(WacomMatch *match);
WacomMatch* libwacom_match_unref(WacomMatch *match);

+#define libwacom_error_set libwacom_internal_error_set
+#define libwacom_match_new libwacom_internal_match_new
+
void libwacom_error_set(WacomError *error, enum WacomErrorCode code, const char *msg, ...);
void libwacom_add_match(WacomDevice *device, WacomMatch *newmatch);
WacomMatch* libwacom_match_new(const char *name, WacomBusType bus,

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