Re: [boost] Specifying symbols, that have to be exported from shared library

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-11 10:11:59

on Thu Jul 10 2008, "Alexander Arhipenko" <arhipjan-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> It would be nice. Care of work on a patch?
>>>
>>> - Volodya
>>>
>>>
>>
>> With great pleasure.
>>
>
> The patch against trunk attached.
> Some comments:
> 1. dso.hpp file is added to boost/config
> 2. all the libraries updated to export only specified symbols except:
>     Boost.Python (because it has own gcc stuff)
>     Boost.Serialization (because a lot of link failures appeared when
> running test cases)
> 3. The code was tested on gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52), i. e.,
>     test cases from boost/libs/LIB_NAME/test was run. No linker
> failures was experienced.
>     Boost.MPI wasn't built and tested.
>
> Any comments?

Just one: patches tend to be more impactful when attached to Trac
tickets: http://svn.boost.org ;-)

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