[Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd] lib: Use symbol versions.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 09:04:33AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 02:19:47PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > This patch adds support for symbol versions.  It is based on what
> > libvirt does.
> > 
> > The generated syms file looks like:
> > 
> > LIBNBD_1.0 {
> >   global:
> >     nbd_...;
> >     nbd_...;
> >   local: *;
> > };
> > 
> > In a future stable 1.2 release, new symbols would go into a new
> > section which would look like this:
> > 
> > LIBNBD_1.2 {
> >   global:
> >     nbd_new_symbol;
> >     nbd_another_new_symbol;
> >   local: *;
> > } LIBNBD_1.0;
> > 
> > In my testing the ‘local:’ label is needed.  For some reason libvirt
> > doesn’t use it.
> 
> We do use it - just note that src/libvirt_public.syms is *not* what
> is used to link. We combine that file with libvirt_private.syms too,
> and when combining, add the "local: *" bit to the result.

Got it, thanks.  I adjusted the output to look more like
src/libvirt.syms and pushed it.

Rich.

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