[Mageia-dev] On binary version references requirements

Fri Oct 26 15:28:33 CEST 2012

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?
+
+T
+