I know what symbol versioning is used for (I was also package maintainer at Red Hat for four years). But don't see how it applies to FreeType. FreeType never changes ABI in backward-incompatible way. Its build system is already adhoc enough. I don't want to see more complexity added unnecessarily. Also, I don't want FreeType binaries to come with the same headaches that libpng and openssl cause every time they bump soname.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:45 AM, Tom Kacvinsky <tkacv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'll see what I can do. To be honest, the only platforms that really > support this > are Linux and Solaris. I definitely have access to Linux machines, but > not a > Solaris machine. I might be able to get access to the latter. > > Despite all of the talk about whether symbol versioning is useful (and > this is not > meant to be snarky), keep in mind the major commercial Linux distributions > use > symbol versioning, as well as the free Linux distributions. I work for > SUSE and > my colleagues highly recommend getting symbol versioning into FreeType. I > agree with them and am willing to do the work as I find time - as the > saying goes, > put my money where my mouth is. > > The only thing I would need is a way of getting the API functions to add > to a > symbol versioning linker file. This way, the symbol versioning script > doesn't > need to be checked in, and if we add something to the API, we don't need to > worry about missing it in the library version file. > > Regards, > > Tom > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> >> > Admittedly, symbol versioning is very poorly supported and >> > documented [...] >> >> Yes. >> >> > [...] All in all, this looks like something to stay away from. >> >> Maybe there are more knowledgeable people who want to contribute... >> >> >> Werner >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype-devel mailing list > Freetype-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel > > -- behdad http://behdad.org/
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