Problem building 1.4.5

[Robin Getz]

On Fri 18 Jun 2010 12:28, Werner Koch pondered:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:56, vapier.adi at gmail.com said:
> 
> > neither exist today and likely wont for a long time (if someone were
> > to implement it today), and wouldnt be backwards compatible
> 
> Well the symbol hiding is not really required and as long as we don't
> need to change the ABI there is no real need for it.
> 
> > another option that isnt as clean is to add a Makefile target to run
> > `sed` on the .in file itself rather than configure.  then the contents
> > wouldnt change between the current version script and the renamed .in
> > version.
> 
> Yeah. I was also thinking of this.  If we do it for one library we need
> to do it for all of the GnuPG related libs and thus I see no immediate
> need for it. 

I'm not sure about all...

libgpg-error builds without issue...

I know that gnutls has a similar issue, but even --disable-ld-version-script 
doesn't help... still digging into that...

> Let me discuss this with the libtool or binutils folks. 

I'm thinking along the same lines as Mike, when he pondered:
> neither exist today and likely wont for a long time (if someone were
> to implement it today), and wouldnt be backwards compatible

-Robin