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Re: limit glibc symbol by version script
- From: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
- To: Steven Munroe <munroesj at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, Hiroki Kaminaga <kaminaga at sm dot sony dot co dot jp>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:19:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: limit glibc symbol by version script
- References: <44B2DBCC.2000808@us.ibm.com>
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Steven Munroe murmured woefully:
> Hiroki Kaminaga writes
>
>>>I would like to limit exported symbol from glibc in my system.
>>>
>>>Background is, I would like to eliminate unused API in my system from glibc,
>>>and for first step, I would like to disable them.
>>>
>>>First thought is to limit exported symbol by using version script.
>>>
>>>How can I do it?
>>>Is there better approach?
>
> try configuring with:
>
> --enable-oldest-abi=ABI configure the oldest ABI supported [e.g.
> 2.2][default=glibc default]
This isn't often tested, as far as I can tell: my attempt to build
with an oldest-abi of 2.4 failed on i386 (I didn't investigate
further: foolish of me).
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