Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Nick Andrik wrote: > I am packaging a library implemented in C++ . > During my effort to generate sane symbol files for it, I saw that C++ symbols > differ among architectures. > > One way to avoid having different symbols files for each architecture is to > use > the demangled names for C++ methods.
This doesn't cover all the problems of differing files between architectures. You might want to look into some of the KDE tools to deal with C++ libraries. Modestas Vainius has developed some useful helper tools (in pkg-kde-tools). > Would it be possible to have dpkg-gensymbols generate c++ demangled names > automatically? > This could be specified by an argument, e.g. dpkg-gensymbols -x Maybe. It's easier to tell if we can judge a patch. Up to now I refused to integrate partial solutions but this feature could be useful and might not require cloberring the code with hacks all over the place. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
