On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:15:52AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I rebuilt samba with the attached patch, and the number of symbols > > exported by libsmbclient went down from more than 4000 to 51. > > The patch adds a version script for this lib, which only exports symbols > > matching "smbc_*". I added tentative detection code for the configure > > script, which checks the version of GNU ld. As far as I know, support > > for this was added for GNU ld 2.12 (or at least, that's what libtool.m4 > > seems to check), released in 2002. > > I'll attach a complete debdiff, and the actual patch I dropped in > > debian/patches.
> That's definitely a big improvement even if I'm completely unable to > understand a single line (everybody knows how dumb I am). > Who takes care to report this to samba-technical (assuming the patch > is correct, which I'm blindly doing)? That probably needs being able > to talk about the details with the Samba Team, which excludes me..:-) > Steve? Julien? Or is Jerry listening enough? :) I talked to Julien on IRC and mentioned that I thought it would be better to put the version script under source/libsmb instead of directly under source. Otherwise, the patch looks sane to me, and I don't have any reason to disagree with Julien's check for a compatible version of ld. Julien, let me know if you prefer me to advocate this patch upstream. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
