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Re: symbol versioning also on debian? (was Re: libwbclient - wbcLogoffUser() & wbcLookupDomainController)

by Gerald (Jerry) Carter :: Rate this Message:

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Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:

>
> We should aim to get as much done before 3.2.0.rc1, but it
> could be that we find some other missing features, which require
> an update of the library version.
>
> Maybe we should think about using symbol versioning,
> see http://people.redhat.com/~drepper/symbol-versioning.
>
> That would mean we can extent the API without breaking
> old applications.

I read up on this it makes sense to me. But I'm not sure
how this would help in the cases where we aren't using GNU ld.
We would still have the same library versioning issues right ?

> diff --git a/source/exports/libwbclient.syms
> b/source/exports/libwbclient.syms
> index f1e68b4..8c12c1a 100644
> --- a/source/exports/libwbclient.syms
> +++ b/source/exports/libwbclient.syms
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -{
> +WBC_0.1 {
> global: wbc*;
> local: *;
> };

cheers, jerry
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