FC6: library global symbol abuse

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Fri Nov 17 08:44:31 UTC 2006


On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:42:37AM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> Below is the output of the script I have to check for global symbol 
> collisions in FC6 libraries, from an i386 @Everything install... some 
> false positives and the usual sorry story.
> 
> Symbol clashes between libraries /usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libartsdsp_st.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libesddsp.so.0.2.36 /usr/lib/libmudflap.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libmudflapth.so.0.0.0:
>   => mmap munmap

For libmudflap* this is ok, it intentionally overrides malloc/etc. including
mmap/munmap to track it.

> Symbol clashes between libraries /usr/lib/libg2c.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.1.0.0:
>   => abort_ etime_

This is ok, you can't mix GCC 3.4.x and earlier G77 with GFortran.

> Symbol clashes between libraries /usr/lib/libefence.so.0.0 /usr/lib/libmudflap.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libmudflapth.so.0.0.0:
>   => calloc realloc malloc free

See above, all this is intentional.

I'll look what can be done about libgcj.so and libobjc.so exports.

	Jakub




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