Re: [ft-devel] LD version script

[Werner LEMBERG]

> 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.

No doubt that it is useful.  However, we lack experience, and there
doesn't seem to be a simple, universal recipy.

> 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.

This would be excellent!

> 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.

I think this is exactly what Alexei's script does.


    Werner