Re: [ft-devel] LD version script

[Werner LEMBERG]

> OK, I looked over the script and it make sense as to what it is
> doing - it is iterating over the various branches used to build
> FreeType.  However, I know from SUSE packaging needs, the build of
> FT for SUSE packages is based on the tarball and patches to be
> applied against the tarball (you can see this in the openSUSE Open
> Build System (build.opensuse.org) for ghostscript.  So I propose as
> part of the final packaging for a release, we check in the symbol
> version script and provide a patch that can be applied against the
> tarball.

`Patch' is probably the wrong word.  The symbol file should simply be
distributed, this is, FreeType's `make dist' command generates the
symbol file and adds it to the tarball.  This is not implemented yet.


    Werner