Re: KDE 2.0 impressions

[Alexander Larsson <alla lysator liu se>]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Drazen Kacar wrote:

> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> > > would assume from a statement I saw on another message that GTK 2.0
> > > will use symbol scope reduction that the intention is to use it.
> >  I saw that, i wonder what tools they plan to use to do that. Owen?
> 
> Libtool has an option to do that. Try `libtool --mode=link --help'. It's
> called -export-symbols-regex. AFAIK, public GTK symbols start with gtk
> and private symbols start with _gtk. If you request this service from
> libtool, it will first build shared object, then use nm to extract
> symbols from it, then apply regexp to select only the ones you want,
> build mapfile from them and then link the shared object again with
> the mapfile applied. So you get symbol reduction, but I think you can't
> have versioning with this method. X11 build does something similar, but
> without libtool.

That means gtk will need to use elf-gc-dynstr to get rid of the strings
from the dynamic symbol string table.

/ Alex