On Fri, 2024-08-09 at 14:14 -0400, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > Despite some small misgivings about renaming symbols (which quite > possibly aren't being used by anyone) in our user-facing libraries, > libpmathpersist and libmpathcmd, for the set: As the functions are only renamed, we could use (weak) aliases here to still provide the old function names if some caller requires them. Would you prefer that? We'd still be violating the glibc standards somewhat, but the probability for an actual symbol name clash is very low, so I guess it would be acceptable to do this in the name of backward compatibility. Martin