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Re: How to maintain a large symbols file of a C++ library



Dear Thomas,
Thomas Weber schrieb am 08.11.2011 00:18:
> I'm in the process of converting Debian's Octave packages into a
> structure with proper library packaging. The symbols file of these three
> C++ libraries has about 30k lines. 
> 
> I'm pretty new to symbols handling, so I'm looking for advice on
> how to handle this. Is there a simple way to reduce the pure size of
> this file? Or is this size normal?
> 
> Further, looking at dpkg-gensymbols(1), it seems I should take
> special care about some C++-features - can you point me to an example of
> how to do this?

I'd say: have a look at the Qt/KDE process and the pkgkde- helpers (warning: I'm
not sure how well those behave for non-KDE/non-Qt libraries). A description on
how to work with symbols for KDE/Qt stuff is available at [0].

Kind regards,
Kai Wasserbäch


[0] <http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/symbolfiles.html>



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