Josselin Mouette schrieb:
> Package: libtrackerclient0
> Version: 0.6.2-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as libtrackerclient.so.0 is now dlopen()ed by GTK+ applications, the
> symbols it contains can now share the namespace of any of these
> applications, and that makes a lot.
> 
> To avoid weird crashes caused by namespace conflicts, libtrackerclient
> should be built with LDFLAGS += -Wl,-Bsymbolic.

Hi Joss,

the ld manpage was not particularly helpful regarding this topic. Could
you please elobarate a bit more what -Bsymbolic does, why it is needed
and if it has any downsides.

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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