Re: Accepted sdl-image1.2 1.2.2-1 (i386 source)
>> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> Actually, I think we should actually get the LSB to propose that ALL
> libraries be compiled with symbol versioning [in the future]. Is
> there any sort of drawbacks with such a policy?
After a couple of iterations over ld.info, I don't see any drawback
other than the maintainance overhead. If we are talking about
versioned symbols á là libdb3 (all the symbols in the library have the
same version, this avoids the kind of trouble we are having with
libpng), the overhead is minimal. If we are talking about the
glibc-style (one library contains multiple versions of the symbols) the
overhead is larger. I'm sure the glibc people have already came up
with ways to handle that. The whole thing is not particularly portable
(but then again, a whole bunch of stuff involving the linux linker
isn't portable either).
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Marcelo
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