Versioned symbols

[Nikos Mavroyanopoulos]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:50:37PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> If you are talking about sticking the same version on all symbols in
> the library depending on the soname of the library, then that is not
> so difficult (nor is it very difficult to maintain it).  However, your
> intention would then be to _load_ two versions of the library into the
> same binary.  For this to be supported, it is not enough to make all
> symbols versioned.  It must also be guaranteed that the two libraries
> are not conflicting.
> 
> I don't know enough about libgcrypt to say if that is possible.
> Potential trouble makers are signal handling, and anything that
> accesses task-global state.  It's a delicate issue, but worthwhile to
> look into it.  It's a delicate issue, though.

Does the linux ld's versioning solve all these problems? To enable
them adding a version string in libgcrypt.version is sufficient.

> Thanks,
> Marcus

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Nikos Mavroyanopoulos