On 19/11/15 11:55, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * 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
>
I second Jakub's opinion.
Ghis