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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seth,

I'm OK with this change.  We can always back it out if things go
sideways.  I'm sure this isn't the only work around lurking in KiCad's
build configuration code.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 3/16/2019 11:56 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Folks, I merged a removal of an older workaround prior to the intended
> merge time.  This was the -Bsymbolic patch from [1].  It looks like it
> was a bug in the linker that no longer exists but it also looks like we
> never got a full resolution on it.  I removed it because it prevents
> throwing exceptions back from a DSO, which we'll need for cleaning
> adding internal STEP processing without also catching the OCE segfaults.
>  Jon helpfully checked that it doesn't cause issues under Arch (where it
> originally was reported).
> 
> That said, if it causes any issues, I'm happy to revert it.  I know a
> fair amount of work went into figuring out that bug and I don't want to
> recreate that work.  I had meant to hold it for the official merge
> window but I lost track of my branches while fixing a different bug.
> 
> Best-
> Seth
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1322354
> 
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