[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#219242: use of commun functions names

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:15:52AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > I rebuilt samba with the attached patch, and the number of symbols
> > exported by libsmbclient went down from more than 4000 to 51.
> > The patch adds a version script for this lib, which only exports symbols
> > matching "smbc_*".  I added tentative detection code for the configure
> > script, which checks the version of GNU ld.  As far as I know, support
> > for this was added for GNU ld 2.12 (or at least, that's what libtool.m4
> > seems to check), released in 2002.
> > I'll attach a complete debdiff, and the actual patch I dropped in
> > debian/patches.

> That's definitely a big improvement even if I'm completely unable to
> understand a single line (everybody knows how dumb I am).

> Who takes care to report this to samba-technical (assuming the patch
> is correct, which I'm blindly doing)? That probably needs being able
> to talk about the details with the Samba Team, which excludes me..:-)

> Steve? Julien? Or is Jerry listening enough? :)

I talked to Julien on IRC and mentioned that I thought it would be better to
put the version script under source/libsmb instead of directly under source.

Otherwise, the patch looks sane to me, and I don't have any reason to
disagree with Julien's check for a compatible version of ld.

Julien, let me know if you prefer me to advocate this patch upstream.

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