On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:32:22AM +0100, bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Le Tuesday 8 November 2011 23:47:56, Thomas Weber a écrit : > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:21:16PM +0100, roucaries bastien wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Thomas Weber <twe...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm in the process of converting Debian's Octave packages into a > > > > structure with proper library packaging. The symbols file of these > > > > three C++ libraries has about 30k lines. > > > > > > > > I'm pretty new to symbols handling, so I'm looking for advice on > > > > how to handle this. Is there a simple way to reduce the pure size of > > > > this file? Or is this size normal? > > > > > > > > Further, looking at dpkg-gensymbols(1), it seems I should take > > > > special care about some C++-features - can you point me to an example > > > > of how to do this? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Thomas > > > > > > Try to use hidden linking before doing this. Ask upstream hel, if needed. > > > > Do you mean GCC's -fvisibility=hidden? If yes, I'm at a loss at how to > > do this in a sensible way - if the symbols were exported before, > > changing this in Debian might break other software that actually uses > > these symbols. > > Yes but because you will upload a new major version you will break. So try to > convince upstream to do this.
Hmm, okay. I'm not going to do this in the 3.4 series, though. We are already far behind with the 3.4 packaging as is. > > > BTW do you need help on arpack ? > > > > Opps, thanks for pointing me at this. I had totally forgotten about > > arpack being bundled. > > Do you need help ? Do you need a new upstream ? If you can get a patch for the 3.4.3 tarball, that uses the packaged arpack instead of the included one, that would obviously be helpful. Bonus points if it's in such a way that the Fedora guys can use it as well :) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676858 Thanks Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111121222748.GA3559@t61
