[Mageia-dev] On binary version references requirements

[Funda Wang]

There is no objections?

2012/10/25 Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> In /usr/lib/rpm/mageia/find-requires, it reads:
>
> # Weak symbol versions (from glibc).
> <snip>
>         (START==2) && (LIBNAME!="") && ($4!="") && (($4~/^GLIBC_*/) ||
> ($4~/^GCC_*/)) {
>              print LIBNAME "(" $4 ")'$lib64'";
>          }
>
>
> That means, we only prints those weak symbols regarding GLIBC and GCC. But why?
>
> $ objdump -x /usr/lib64/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0
> Version References:
>    required from libxml2.so.2:
>      0x08f4cab6 0x00 19 LIBXML2_2.6.6
>      0x08f4cab0 0x00 16 LIBXML2_2.6.0
>      0x0f4c8be0 0x00 15 LIBXML2_2.4.30
>    required from libpthread.so.0:
>      0x09691a75 0x00 10 GLIBC_2.2.5
>    required from libstdc++.so.6:
>      0x056bafd3 0x00 18 CXXABI_1.3
>      0x02297f89 0x00 17 GLIBCXX_3.4.9
>      0x0297f865 0x00 11 GLIBCXX_3.4.15
>      0x08922974 0x00 08 GLIBCXX_3.4
>    required from libxslt.so.1:
>      0x0f5c4bd4 0x00 20 LIBXML2_1.0.24
>      0x08f5c3b9 0x00 14 LIBXML2_1.1.9
>      0x0f5c4bd2 0x00 12 LIBXML2_1.0.22
>      0x0f5c4bc1 0x00 07 LIBXML2_1.0.11
>    required from libjpeg.so.8:
>      0x04cdfde0 0x00 06 LIBJPEG_8.0
>    required from libdl.so.2:
>      0x09691a75 0x00 04 GLIBC_2.2.5
>    required from libm.so.6:
>      0x09691a75 0x00 03 GLIBC_2.2.5
>    required from libc.so.6:
>      0x0d696918 0x00 23 GLIBC_2.8
>      0x06969191 0x00 22 GLIBC_2.11
>      0x06969194 0x00 21 GLIBC_2.14
>      0x0d696914 0x00 13 GLIBC_2.4
>      0x0d696913 0x00 09 GLIBC_2.3
>      0x09691a75 0x00 05 GLIBC_2.2.5
>      0x09691974 0x00 02 GLIBC_2.3.4
>
> That means, ABI versions regarding LIBXML2* and LIBJPEG* are not
> raised when packaging. Fedora is promoting those extra ABI versions
> now. I read history on mandriva's repository, but could not find any
> relevant information.
>
> Any thoughts to export those requirements?

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