Re: symbol versioning and libtinfo (was: ANN: ncurses-5.9-20141115)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:55:25AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:56:57PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2014-11-16 05:28 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > >   + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
> > >     the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
> > >   + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
> > >     symbol-versioning.
> > 
> > Thanks for doing that.  When trying this option for the Debian package
> > which is configured "--with-termlib=tinfo" I ran into problems.
> > 
> > - Both the wide and normal library are linked to libtinfo, but since
> 
> I did consider that, but for an initial implementation did not address it,
> because I was uncertain how I should do this (whether for example I could
> use multiple version-scripts, or whether the solution would be to make some
> composite).

I believe that I can accomplish this by first generating a data file which
shows the variations, and then generating the various ".map" files.

That will take a couple of days to develop; however I expect to be out
this weekend, so the result will take a few weeks...

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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