[Pkg-silc-devel] Bug#558957: Bug#558957: Resolve unresolved symbols in shared libraries

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 11/30/2009 01:32 PM, Peter Fritzsche wrote:
> I build all packages some time ago with binutils-gold and your package build
> without an hard failure, but I noticed that you seems to provide a library in
> a specific library package so other packages can link against it without
> problems.... but your shared object has still some unresolved symbols which
> the program which links agaomst it must resolve. This isnt a good idea because
> when you introduce new dependencies the package previously linked against the
> old version will break because it doesnt know about the new dependency.
> Maybe you could link against all needed libraries so programs must not link
> against libraries which it doesnt need to use.

sounds to me like:

libsilc-1.1 should be built with -lpthread -ldl
libsilcclient-1.1 should be built with -lsilc

i don't have time to try it right now, unfortunately :(

Regards,

	--dkg

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