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Re: _ELFUTILS_PREREQ dependency
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:49:54 -0700
- Subject: Re: _ELFUTILS_PREREQ dependency
> As Roland and I discussed on IRC, it would be nice if using
> _ELFUTILS_PREREQ invoked some symbol versioning too, so that compiling a
> package against newer elfutils would pull up the rpm dependencies with it.
It's not a generic issue about _ELFUTILS_PREREQ.
> For example, I'd like to write compatibility code around commit de69d52
> for whether attr_integrate is handled -- if the compile-time check
> decides that elfutils is new enough, then rpm needs to make sure that
> the user gets the update too.
It's just about new symbol versions for these changed functions.
> I don't know the magic to make that happen, but Roland wanted me to send
> a reminder to the list. :)
I'll poke at it now.