[Unbound-users] [NLnet Labs Maintainers] unbound-1.2.1 released

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Ondrej,

I do not want to export any internal symbols, in fact I do:
- --export-symbols $(srcdir)/libunbound/ubsyms.def
so that only the symbols in the header file should be exported ...

I guess this is not working somehow.

Best regards,
   Wouter

Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I checked man page of libunbound and it seems to me that there are many
> internal symbols in libunbound (since public interface is only ub_*).
> 
> Perhaps you need to split library in two?  So libunbound exports only
> public interface as documented in libunbound(3)?  That way you can
> have libunbound-private (or something like that) where you could
> increase SONAME each time you remove symbol and it will not hit
> other binaries linked against libunbound.  Other way is to bump
> soname when you remove symbols (ie. backwards compatibility).
> 
> I know it's pain in the ass - but now nobody can stop third party
> from using internal symbols from this library and there third party
> programs would break when you change API/ABI.
> 
> Ondrej.
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