Re: [ft-devel] LD version script

[Vincent Torri]

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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