Re: Re: Automatic maintenance of the file .symbols for libraries
* Innocent De Marchi <tangram.peces@gmail.com> [120401 13:08]:
> >The symbols file cannot be generated automatically as no computer
> >program can decide what the contents should be.
>
> ....but in the compilation of the package (for example with pdebuild), a
> report of differences is generated if there are changes.
That's a list of added symbols (and warning about removed ones).
Sometimes those changes are all you need, but a computer cannot decide
if those are enough. You need to take a look at how the library changed
to determine if any symbol changed it's ABI.
Bernhard R. Link
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