Re: how to fix "dpkg-gensymbols difference on (arch)"

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp>]

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:23:07 +0200
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> You have two solutions:
> - Implement architecture specific symbol files. You have facilities like
>   includes, so that it can be easier, but since there is a symbol missing,
>   it might be painful.
> - Seeing what the symbols look like, it actually seems these symbols
>   shouldn't be exported in the first place[1]
>   It would fail to build on the architecture you use when building your
>   packages, if you'd try to build with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt (provided
>   your debian/rules file does the right thing in such a case, i.e.
>   switching to -O0 instead of -O2).
>   Using a version script to filter these out could be a solution.
>   See https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=22106&action=view , for
>   example.
> 
> I'd personally go for the second.

 I don't fully understand the second solution, but it seems to be that
 smart way to do. 

 First, I would fix for alpha with first, Michal also suggest one, and
 then I'll try the second one. 

 Thanks!

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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/iijmio-mail.jp
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