Problem building 1.4.5

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Jun 21 15:28:49 CEST 2010


On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:14, vapier.adi at gmail.com said:

> even if you change the ABI, symbol hiding isnt really necessary.  the
> only functions you've guaranteed to be in the ABI are the ones you've

The version script allows to implement several ABIs.  Thus we can modify
an API or remobing it without tocuhing the ABI.  Checkout glibc to see
how this can be useful.

> as soon as you use a version script to give to binutils, libtool takes
> no part in the symbol munging.  had you used -export-symbols or

Well it could munge the version script for us or pass an appropriate
option to ld ;-).


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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