About the patches in src:boinc

[Guo Yixuan]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Guo Yixuan <culu.gyx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna <
costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it> wrote:
> >
> > and when your cleanup will be finisched I'll try to make a
> > good patch for having a dynamic linkage, and try to push
> > it upstream
> >
> > something like "--enable-dynamic-libraries" that will
> > remove for us also the dynamic link patches.
> >
> > Upstream doesn't want to link it dinamically, but a switch
> > should be good for everybody.
> >
> > thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Gianfranco
>
> Perhaps, but this is certainly more work to do than specifying
> the correct flags to compilers and linkers. [1] There're API/ABI
> compatibility issues, and it may take more than a manageable
> set of debian patches to do it correctly, I'm afraid.
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to learn more in this area. (But I don't have
> enough knowledge to reach a conclusion for this problem, at
> least for now.)
>
>
> [1] https://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
>      and the other links from dpkg-gensymbols(1) should
>      also be helpful

If not sure, I would suggest we add some shlibs with strict
dependencies, and make sure that all the dependents
(currently only boinc-api-seti) are compiled against the
lastest boinc.

btw, seti graphics just crashed with the latest boinc, but I'm
not sure in which package the bug lies...

Yixuan
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