Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-28 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 23:15:33 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > just the remaining question: which are the architecture names for > ppc64, mips-newabi and mips64? I see that I can "invent" my own > ones, but I would prefer to use ones which are probably already used > in other places. ppc64 is a kno

Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-28 Thread Matthias Klose
Biarch is a hack, but maintainer is in control of this hack and probably fiddle with a couple of similar options. So I don't think that using -a option this way is a big problem, is it? Indeed, it looks like a good solution as well. Matthias, are you satisfied with this suggestion? just the re

Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Modestas Vainius wrote: > > Why do you believe that? I don't know of many cases where the name of an > > ELF binary format got changed... but I haven't studied the question. That > > said we have no official mapping between ELF format and Debian > > architecture and the ma

Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-28 Thread Matthias Klose
On 28.07.2010 15:13, Modestas Vainius wrote: So there is a (very easy) solution for that. I added -a option to dpkg- gensymbols 1.15.6. I must admit that it was for different purpose but it should work very nicely in this context. So: $ dpkg-gensymbols -plib32std++6 -ai386 ... or $ dh_makeshli

Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-28 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On trečiadienis 28 Liepa 2010 16:17:30 Matthias Klose wrote: > On 28.07.2010 15:13, Modestas Vainius wrote: > > So there is a (very easy) solution for that. I added -a option to dpkg- > > gensymbols 1.15.6. I must admit that it was for different purpose but it > > should work very nicely in

Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-28 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On trečiadienis 28 Liepa 2010 15:08:54 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Modestas Vainius wrote: > > Maybe you want to be able use the same symbol file for both libstdc++6 on > > i386 and lib32stdc++6 on amd64 (because in theory their symbol sets > > should be identical AFAIU) a

Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Modestas Vainius wrote: > Maybe you want to be able use the same symbol file for both libstdc++6 on > i386 > and lib32stdc++6 on amd64 (because in theory their symbol sets should be > identical AFAIU) and that's what is this bug actually about? AFAIU, that's right. He has a

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2010-07-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-28 Thread Modestas Vainius
severity 590563 wishlist thanks Hello, On trečiadienis 28 Liepa 2010 09:24:31 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > > A C++ library like libstdc++ built for 32bit and 64bit in the same > > source can have different symbol names in the 32bit and 64bit > > builds, an

Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > A C++ library like libstdc++ built for 32bit and 64bit in the same > source can have different symbol names in the 32bit and 64bit > builds, and different symbol names on different architectures. The > current `arch' attribute only allows selection

Bug#590563: dpkg-gensymbols can't handle biarch libs with different symbol names

2010-07-27 Thread Matthias Klose
Package: dpkg A C++ library like libstdc++ built for 32bit and 64bit in the same source can have different symbol names in the 32bit and 64bit builds, and different symbol names on different architectures. The current `arch' attribute only allows selection of the architecture. dpkg should al