About the patches in src:boinc

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Il Martedì 27 Maggio 2014 21:10, Guo Yixuan <culu.gyx at gmail.com> ha scritto:


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>On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it> wrote:
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>> Wonderful! thanks Guo for your nice cleanup!
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>> In my opinion we should keep the delta from upstream as
>> minimal as possible,
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>Surely agree!
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>> 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
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>> something like "--enable-dynamic-libraries" that will
>> remove for us also the dynamic link patches.
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>> Upstream doesn't want to link it dinamically, but a switch
>> should be good for everybody.
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>> thoughts?
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>> Gianfranco
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>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.
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>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.)
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Yes, I'm reading the same book since some months (in my almost zero free time) :)

When I import a new release I look for lib/api changes.

I look lib and api folders for:
-changes in prototypes
-changes in shared structs

I didn't see them so far, but can you please try to rebuild locally boinc-app-seti and see if you can reproduce the crash?

thanks

Gianfranco


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>[1] https://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf   
>     and the other links from dpkg-gensymbols(1) should 
>     also be helpful
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>Cheers,
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>Yixuan
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