> On 3. Jun 2017, at 16:40, Harald Welte <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Holger,

Hi,



> I actually really liked the idea as an elegant way to have test cases
> access more "private" / "low-end" functions inside the implementation,
> while ensuring only proper APIs are exposed to actual applications
> (which use dynamic libs).  I would actually like to use that in all the
> other libraries / code we have.

As time permits I will see if we can get the libtool m4 not generate
the --disable-static option or at least error on it.


>       #define STATIC  static
> in production builds, and define it to nothing in the build for unit
> tests, if needed.

yes, something like this is done in Qt when building for testing but
I think the setup is complicated for us.



>> The second part is that I had preferred the sccp library to be static
>> only to avoid having to do proper ABI checking/versioning. If we fix
>> the above, maybe we have to fix this part too?
> 
> I'm not sure why it should be different from all the other libosmo*
> libraries in that regard?

Historically as being one of the first libraries? I had no goal of a
clean namespace, API, etc.

holger

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