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Re: preparing for GCC 5, especially libstdc++6



On 06/25/2015 01:20 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 06/25/2015 11:23 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> - You suggest that some libraries may need to be renamed due to the ABI breaks.
>> Do you have a list of affected libraries?
> 
> No. Getting this list is a bit difficult. Candidates for these packages are the
> GCC 5 build failures due to mismatched symbols files. However there may be more
> packages which successfully build, but have additional symbols (this may be an
> empty set, because usually some symbol names should be just replaced by new ones).

If symbol versioning is used in a library, you probably won't see this at all,
until the package is built using GCC 5. I'll ask for another test rebuild with a
diverted dpkg-gensymbols to look at the generated symbols files.


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