[swift-dev] Issues when building swift using GNU 2.26 related to protected symbols

[Joe Groff]

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 8:31 AM, William Dillon via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Geez, VMs are slow… :)
> 
> So, I was able to reproduce Dmitri’s error on 16.04.  Adding -Bsymbolic to the linker arguments in cmake/modules/AddSwift.cmake makes it go away.  Of course, it is unsatisfying to have this regression after Joe’s excellent work making them obsolete.

Thanks for trying it out, Will. I agree that requiring -Bsymbolic is unfortunate, but it's good to know we have a workaround in case this can't be fixed in time for 16.04.

-Joe