Re: make tools question & symbol versioning

Hi,

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:51:48 -0500 (EST)
Daniel Eischen <eischen@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

eischen> I'm working on symbol versioning for libc and have an awk script
eischen> that needs to run (from libc/Makefile) in order to generate the
eischen> symbol map file. It may also be applicable for symbol versioning
eischen> other libraries. Where is the right place to put it?

eischen> If anyone is interested in reviewing, the first shot at symbol
eischen> versioning for libc at:

eischen> http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/symver/symver.diffs

eischen> I was conservative in removing global symbols. I'm sure there
eischen> are others that can be removed, but we can do that later.

It seems your diff includes the functions only for libc internal, such
as gethostbyname_r. Do we need to target such symbols?

Sincerely,

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Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
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