Bug#848368: llvm-toolchain-3.9: Please add ELF symbols versions to the libraries

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On sábado, 17 de diciembre de 2016 10:16:15 ART Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Le 16/12/2016 à 19:55, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer a écrit :
> > Source: llvm-toolchain-3.9
> > Version: 1:3.9.1-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > As can be seen in #846410 having no ELF-versioned symbols leads to
> > unexpected crashes when two LLVM versions are used in the same process.
> > 
> > Adding ELF symbols versions would allow avoiding this crashes as long as
> > no data is interchanged between both versions of LLVM-related libs.
> 
> With the upcoming freeze, I won't probably do it to mitigate potential side
> effects...
> 
> But happy to have a look once we released Stretch.

That's totally cool.

I've been told that there is a command line to add a version to all symbols 
without a script, that should be enough at least for Debian packaging.

If I understand correctly LLVM is now using CMake, so I might even be able to 
provide you with a patch.

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