On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 14:38 +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > I wonder whether there is a way to check for such errors automatically > with lintian; they are bound to arise now and then, aren't they?
Symbol conflict errors happen somewhat often, and it's sometimes difficult to detect them. I've had to change Dovecot several times because some library exports a symbol that Dovecot also uses. I don't know if there's an easy automated way to detect them in a generic way, but at least for PAM plugins I think it would be possible to make sure that they only export those symbols that are required by PAM, everything else would be hidden. Then there shouldn't be any symbol conflicts. A quick google lookup shows that it should be possible: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/435352/limiting-visibility-of-symbols-when-linking-shared-libraries
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