Thanks for your input! Cheers, Nico
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:27 PM Ghislain Vaillant <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/11/15 11:55, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Nico Schlömer <[email protected]>, 2015-11-18, 22:52: > >> I'm building the symbols for all libraries in the Trilinos package. > >> Unfortunately, the documentation [1] isn't too verbose here. One thing > >> that has come to my attention, for example, is the fact that some > >> Trilinos libraries appear to contain lots of symbols; including some > >> (all?) of dependent libraries, e.g., > >> ``` > >> MPI::Op::Free()@Base > >> ``` > >> see [2] (towards the end of the build log). > >> This amounts to symbols files of several megabytes in size per > >> library. Perhaps something is going wrong at the linking stage? > >> Pointers to more documentation/tips and tricks are appreciated. > > > > My recommendation is to avoid using symbol files for complex C++ > > libraries. It's most likely not worth the effort. > > > > See this blog post series by Russ Allbery: > > http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/007.html > > http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-01/008.html > > http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2012-02/001.html > > > > I second Jakub's opinion. > > Ghis > >
