Re: building symbols

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer@gmail.com>, 2015-11-18, 22:52:
> I'm building the symbols for all libraries in the Trilinos package. 
> Unfortunately, the documentation [1] isn't too verbose here. One thing 
> that has come to my attention, for example, is the fact that some 
> Trilinos libraries appear to contain lots of symbols; including some 
> (all?) of dependent libraries, e.g.,
> ```
> MPI::Op::Free()@Base
> ```
> see [2] (towards the end of the build log).
> This amounts to symbols files of several megabytes in size per library. 
> Perhaps something is going wrong at the linking stage? Pointers to more 
> documentation/tips and tricks are appreciated.

My recommendation is to avoid using symbol files for complex C++ 
libraries. It's most likely not worth the effort.

See this blog post series by Russ Allbery:
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/007.html
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/008.html
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-02/001.html

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Jakub Wilk