Re: review request for libpst

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On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 21:19 -0700, Carl Byington wrote:
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> > 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).

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James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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