At Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:21:21 +0000, Taylor R Campbell 
<campbell+netbsd-tech-userle...@mumble.net> wrote:
Subject: Checking library symbols
>
> So far this is experimental -- I only tried it with openssl libcrypto
> to verify another experiment with renaming sha2 symbols.  It's limited
> to shared libraries, not static libraries, for now.  In practice we
> might require more mechanism to handle MD variation in the set of
> defined symbols (especially with libm), and we might encounter other
> problems I haven't foreseen if we try to apply this to more libraries,
> but I thought I'd share a first draft.

It seems it can cause builds with non-default MK* options such as
MKINET6=no to fail.

See my post from today on current-users.

The particular case I ran into for libpcap would seem to be a design
flaw in libpcap's API, though I'm not so familiar with libpcap that I
can be sure.

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