From be48da61bfdc05ded31dd45186227935d62c1055 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenichi Ishigaki <ishigaki@cpan.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:05:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] don't guess and check harder if ld supports Bsymbolic or not

---
 Makefile.PL | 18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 3d5064c..b29f4ca 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -249,12 +249,18 @@ my @CC_OPTIONS = (
 	) : () ),
 );
 
-# RT #70135: These flags are valid only for gcc/g++
-if ($Config{cc} =~ /^g?cc/) {
-	push @CC_OPTIONS,
-		CCFLAGS   => $Config{ccflags}   . '  -Wl,-Bsymbolic',
-		LDFLAGS   => $Config{ldflags}   . '  -Wl,-Bsymbolic',
-		LDDLFLAGS => $Config{lddlflags} . '  -Wl,-Bsymbolic';
+# RT #70135: See if ld supports Bsymbolic; 
+for my $path (File::Spec->path) {
+	if (MM->maybe_command("$path/ld")) {
+		my $output = `$path/ld --help`;
+		if ($output =~ /Bsymbolic/) {
+			push @CC_OPTIONS,
+				CCFLAGS   => $Config{ccflags}   . '  -Wl,-Bsymbolic',
+				LDFLAGS   => $Config{ldflags}   . '  -Wl,-Bsymbolic',
+				LDDLFLAGS => $Config{lddlflags} . '  -Wl,-Bsymbolic';
+		}
+		last;
+	}
 }
 
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