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Re: [ft-devel] LD version script
From: |
Vincent Torri |
Subject: |
Re: [ft-devel] LD version script |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:48:24 +0100 |
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Tom Kacvinsky <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'll see what I can do. To be honest, the only platforms that really
> support this
> are Linux and Solaris. I definitely have access to Linux machines, but not
> a
> Solaris machine. I might be able to get access to the latter.
virtualbox + openindiana ?
Vincent Torri
> Despite all of the talk about whether symbol versioning is useful (and this
> is not
> meant to be snarky), keep in mind the major commercial Linux distributions
> use
> symbol versioning, as well as the free Linux distributions. I work for SUSE
> and
> my colleagues highly recommend getting symbol versioning into FreeType. I
> agree with them and am willing to do the work as I find time - as the
> saying goes,
> put my money where my mouth is.
>
> The only thing I would need is a way of getting the API functions to add to
> a
> symbol versioning linker file. This way, the symbol versioning script
> doesn't
> need to be checked in, and if we add something to the API, we don't need to
> worry about missing it in the library version file.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Admittedly, symbol versioning is very poorly supported and
>> > documented [...]
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> > [...] All in all, this looks like something to stay away from.
>>
>> Maybe there are more knowledgeable people who want to contribute...
>>
>>
>> Werner
>
>
>
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- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, (continued)
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/28
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2018/01/28
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/28
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2018/01/28
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/28
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Behdad Esfahbod, 2018/01/28
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Tom Kacvinsky, 2018/01/28
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2018/01/29
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Tom Kacvinsky, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script,
Vincent Torri <=
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Tom Kacvinsky, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Alan Coopersmith, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Behdad Esfahbod, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Tom Kacvinsky, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Behdad Esfahbod, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Tom Kacvinsky, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2018/01/30
- Re: [ft-devel] LD version script, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/01/31