[devel] symbols into dependencies

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:46:01PM +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:44:38AM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
> > When a symbol is moved to another library, some programs might need
> > relinking, while some might still work.
> > 
> > Let's see what happens if a symbol is moved from libA to libB.  The
> > programs that use the symbol and linked only to libA go broke, right?
> 
> But if libA is linked with libB, the symbol will still be available
> even for such programs.

Yes, that was exactly the case with the tgetent migration.

What I want to highlight here is that our upcoming ELF deps should not
break valid symbol migrations.


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