On 8/14/07, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:58 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: [...] > I think generally only symbols starting with 'glu[A-Z]' are supposed to > be public.
Right. > > Second, the bin/mklib script has some internal support for restricting > > the set of exports (the -exports option) but that feature has a > > critical bug when used with Linux/Solaris version scripts: it assigns > > all symbols the same version, derived from the soname. This is wrong. > > Symbol versions are part of the ABI and need to stay stable once > > assigned; if a program that wants, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is run > > with a libglu.so that only has a @GLU_1.1 version, the dynamic linker > > will barf. > > > > My preferred way to deal with this would be to have a GNU-ld-style > > version script for GLU in the source tree, and document that mklib > > -exports expects a file in that format. mklib would then convert that > > to whatever format other platforms' linkers want -- as far as I know, > > the GNU version script is strictly more featureful than any other > > similar format. I'm not going to implement the conversions, though; > > that's for the maintainers of the support for those other platforms. > > Do you think that would be something you could get back into upstream? Go ahead and implement it and submit a patch to bugzilla. Sounds good from your description. -Brian
