[Spice-devel] [PATCH] server: add symbol versioning to the spice server shared library.

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Jul 19 05:25:24 PDT 2011


On 07/19/11 14:13, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:59:31PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> This patch adds symbol versions to the spice server library.  Each
>> symbol which is exported by libspice-server gets tagged with the
>> (stable) version where it appeared first.  This way the linker and rpm
>> are able to figure which version of the spice-server libary is required
>> by a particular qemu binary/package.
>>
>
> Didn't realize this is how this works - I was sure it was automatic.  Pretty
> cool. When I add the spice_qxl_* will I have to update spice-server.syms too?

Yes.

cheers,
   Gerd



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