On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 21:19 -0700, Carl Byington wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 3. version-marked symbol: foo@LIBBAR_2_1_0 (and no other foo@* > > symbol) > > * conservative use of symbol versioning > > * contains version information which RPM can use for automatic deps > > * programs using foo will have a libbar.so.2(LIBBAR_2_1_0) autodep > > * on OSes without symbol versioning, just foo (as in 1.) will be > > used > > * as in 1., the function foo must remain binary compatible > > The solution 3. is what I'm suggesting to use. RPM autodeps would be > > much > > safer if all upstream projects used that. > > I am both the upstream and the packager for this project, and I am > willing to make changes (well, within reason) to make it fit nicely > into Fedora. Do you have an example of a fedora package that uses this > approach so I can study it, or is there a reference with a bit more > detail of exactly how to create these versioned symbols and the rules > to be followed when deciding which symbols need to be versioned? You can use "yum provides 'lib*(*_*)'" to find a few different packages, one simplish one I know of is "ustr" (doesn't use autotools). -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
