Re: stripping kde libs and binaries

El Miércoles 20 Octubre 2004 18:55, Alexander Neundorf escribió:
> On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:21, Karl Vogel wrote:
> > Juergen Pfennig <[email protected]> wrote in
> >
> > news:[email protected]:
> > > On Tuesday 19 October 2004 12:53, CPH wrote:
> > >> What about also running the strip command on libs and binaries ?
> >
> > That's something the distro's need to do (and they are already doing
> > it, AFAIK)... but it's a fact that due to the usage of the kdeinit fork
> > hack, that most binaries export way more symbols than necessary.
> > (default with GCC+ELF is that everything is exported).
> >
> > GCC 3.4.2 finally has an option to change the default to hidden. A
> > while ago I changed my KDE to only export what was needed.. but I
> > didn't get too much reponse on the patch, so I stopped working on it.
>
> I remember, IMO important and good work :-)
> Please don't stop working on this, now that 3.3 is out maybe there is a
> chance to get it applied now.
>

Actually, isn't the Windows compatibility bringing in symbol visibility 
annotation in kdelibs?
Or are you talking  of something different?

Luciano

> Bye
> Alex

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