Raphael Hertzog (23/07/2009):
> > In case a maintainer of a shared lib never did this, I strongly
> > advise playing around with a simple combo of diff, find, and nm, in
> > order to have a look at what symbols are becoming between two
> > releases.
>
> Why is that better than comparing both symb
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog (22/07/2009):
> > Yes. Check "man dpkg-gensymbols" and see how some nice tools
> > […propaganda…]
>
> FSVO “nice”. #536034.
Mistakes happen, that doesn't change anything concerning the usefulness of
the tool.
> In case a maintainer o
Raphael Hertzog (22/07/2009):
> Yes. Check "man dpkg-gensymbols" and see how some nice tools
> […propaganda…]
FSVO “nice”. #536034.
In case a maintainer of a shared lib never did this, I strongly advise
playing around with a simple combo of diff, find, and nm, in order to
have a look at what sym
> > 2) Runtime linking. This is overhead at application startup time.
> >Something that embeds an SQL engine should not, I think, start up too
> >frequently. Am I wrong?
[Bernd Zeimetz]
> We're talking about amarok here. As a medi aplayer I could imagine it
> will be starte several time
Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 2) Runtime linking. This is overhead at application startup time.
>Something that embeds an SQL engine should not, I think, start up too
>frequently. Am I wrong?
We're talking about amarok here. As a medi aplayer I could imagine it will be
starte several times p
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Am Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:13:55 + (UTC)
> schrieb Philipp Kern :
> > Well, actually... I would expect that from a maintainer of a... shared
> > library. dpkg-gensymbols helps with that, though.
>
> I meant "maintainer" as in Debian maintainer not a
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 04:52:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > As I understand it, the performance drawbacks of a shared library are:
> > 1) The PIC code and its use of a GOT. Given that we're talking about a
> >PIC static library, this is not relevant.
> The argument was that a shared
Am Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:13:55 + (UTC)
schrieb Philipp Kern :
> On 2009-07-21, Christian Hammers wrote:
> > First, thanks for the long answer, Wouter!
> >
> > To wrap it up:
> > * static libraries are a PITA in case of security problems
> > * static libraries are a PITA for other projects as t
On 2009-07-21, Christian Hammers wrote:
> First, thanks for the long answer, Wouter!
>
> To wrap it up:
> * static libraries are a PITA in case of security problems
> * static libraries are a PITA for other projects as they have no versions
> * shared libraries with self chosen soname or --releas
Hello
On 2009-07-21 Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:40:17AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> > Am Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:18:23 +0100
> > schrieb Roger Leigh :
> > > If other libraries are including this library, then why is libmysqld
> > > not being provided as a properly-version
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:17:28AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [Wouter Verhelst]
> > Whether we should recommend using static libraries is another matter
> > entirely; indeed performance does go down a teeny weeny bit when using
> > shared libraries, but the difference shouldn't be *that* la
[Wouter Verhelst]
> Whether we should recommend using static libraries is another matter
> entirely; indeed performance does go down a teeny weeny bit when using
> shared libraries, but the difference shouldn't be *that* large; if it
> is, that probably means they're using a twisty maze of functio
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:40:17AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Am Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:18:23 +0100
> schrieb Roger Leigh :
> > If other libraries are including this library, then why is libmysqld
> > not being provided as a properly-versioned shared object?
>
> Upstream, in this case Monty hi
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:40:17AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> So I try to get this working on Debian, too, and create a libmysqld0
> package with a shared library instead. Speaking of it, which soname
> version should I give it? 0.0.0? Or something like 0.5137.0 to somehow
> encode a version
Am Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:18:23 +0100
schrieb Roger Leigh :
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:10:11PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > In the Cc'ed bug report we were asked to created a libmysqld-pic
> > package that only contains libmysqld_pic.a which should be compiled
> > with -fPIC.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:10:11PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Hello
>
> In the Cc'ed bug report we were asked to created a libmysqld-pic package that
> only contains libmysqld_pic.a which should be compiled with -fPIC.
> As I'm no library expert I gladly follow the recommendation of Policy
Hello
In the Cc'ed bug report we were asked to created a libmysqld-pic package that
only contains libmysqld_pic.a which should be compiled with -fPIC.
As I'm no library expert I gladly follow the recommendation of Policy §10.2
and ask for comments :) The reason for creating this package was that
l
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