Bug 181683 – PAL should link to JavaScriptCore rather than WTF

• Component: Platform
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Michael Catanzaro]

Currently we are accidentally linking WTF into both libjavascriptcoregtk and libwebkit2gtk, which could in theory cause problems similar to bug #179914. There are only two possible solutions:

 * Ensure WTF always built as a shared library if JavaScriptCore is built as a shared library
 * Change PAL to link to JavaScriptCore instead of WTF

The problem here is caused by layer hopping. It can never be a problem if each library only links to the next lowest-layered library.

The downside is this allows PAL to use JavaScriptCore symbols, which is not super desirable. I came up with a hack yesterday for PAL to link to WTF usually, but link to JavaScriptCore instead if ${JavaScriptCore_LIBRARY_TYPE} MATCHES "SHARED" AND ${WTF_LIBRARY_TYPE} MATCHES "STATIC". But that is getting too complex and introduces more possibility for platform-dependent build failures. Better to just accept that PAL will depend on JavaScriptCore.

Note: I'm not brave enough to update the XCode build. We can use that to enforce that no JavaScriptCore symbols actually get used, I guess.

[Michael Catanzaro]

(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #0)
> The problem here is caused by layer hopping. It can never be a problem if
> each library only links to the next lowest-layered library.

Note that, to my knowledge, PAL is the only lib we have that violates this rule.

[Konstantin Tokarev]

>Note that, to my knowledge, PAL is the only lib we have that violates this rule.

Not at all. WebKit links to WebCore and JSC, and there are more examples in Tools

[Michael Catanzaro]

(In reply to Konstantin Tokarev from comment #2)
> >Note that, to my knowledge, PAL is the only lib we have that violates this rule.
> 
> Not at all. WebKit links to WebCore and JSC, and 

Ah yes, but it shouldn't need to do that.

> there are more examples in Tools

No doubt :)

[Michael Catanzaro]

Created attachment 331394 [details]
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[Michael Catanzaro]

Comment on attachment 331394 [details]
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It's not right, I should change WebCore to not link directly to JSC now.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Created attachment 331396 [details]
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[Konstantin Tokarev]

Comment on attachment 331396 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=331396&action=review

> Source/WebCore/PAL/pal/CMakeLists.txt:26
> +    JavaScriptCore${DEBUG_SUFFIX}

In the perfect world it should be PUBLIC if JSC is SHARED and PRIVATE otherwise. Or, it could be specified as PRIVATE here and ports who build JSC as shared can add it as INTERFACE in a separate command.

But it's ok in this form for now too.

[Michael Catanzaro]

(In reply to Konstantin Tokarev from comment #7)
> In the perfect world it should be PUBLIC if JSC is SHARED and PRIVATE
> otherwise.

This would be easiest... currently we make almost no use of library dependency visibility, though. Let's explore that in future patches.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Committed r226989: <https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/226989>

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

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