Re: [build, libjava] Support Sun symbol versioning in libjava

[Rainer Orth <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>]

Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:

> To begin with, your patch was *below* the .sig delimiter.  People won't
> see it there.

I've never heard that being a problem.

> I have to admit I don't understand many of the issues here.  There seem
> to be many changes to the Linux version, which I don't see the need for.

Actually no: I just introduce per-library variables where I need them
with Sun ld, but set them all to the same value as before for Linux.

> Did you test this on GNU/Linux ?

Not yet: no access.  Perhaps via VirtualBox or the GCC test farm.

>> Besides, there are a couple of other shared libraries installed by
>> libjava, which may be internal implementation details and not usable by
>> end users.  Perhaps they should be installed into $pkglibdir instead?
>> Currently, this affects libgij, libgcj-tools, libjvm, lib-gnu-awt-xlib,
>> and libgcj_bc.  The maintainers should be able to easily decide where
>> this might apply.
>
> A couple of these are internal, but most not.

Could you point out which of the are supposed to be used by end users
with -l<lib>?

Thanks.
	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University