* Junichi Uekawa (dancer@netfort.gr.jp) wrote: > I wouldn't consider them nasty hacks. You'd be wrong. > Well, then, they are ld feature, not universally available. That's correct, amazingly enough. > I could not convince libpng maintainers to use versioned symbols because > they were apparently not available on AIX and Windows. Then they're being fools. As with a great deal of other things (which is why we have things like automake/autoconf and company) versioned symbols should be used on the platforms that support them and ugly hacks where they're not supported. The ugly hacks shouldn't be forced on current systems due to the poor design of ancient and archaic systems. Stephen
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