Comment 43 for bug 1725250

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: [Bug 1725250] Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

On 18 May 2018 at 15:51, bugproxy <email address hidden> wrote:
> ------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-05-18 10:41 EDT-------
> Hi Harald,
>
> I agree that we should investigate this, so let's keep this discussion
> going outside here.
>
> @Dimitri, just out of curiosity, that Xfe ticket that you mentioned is
> from 2010. So the "-Bsymbolic-functions" is on Ubuntu since this time
> right?
>

No.

> Then, and just to confirm, is it right to assume that this linking
> option was included in opencryptoki package only in Ubuntu 17.10?
>

No.

> I am asking this because I want to be sure that we are not missing any
> other factor.
>

I believe -Bsymbolic-functions was on since Ubuntu's inception in
2004. But I'm failing to find documentation of this flag on e.g.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ToolChain/CompilerFlags

@ matthias, could you please provide comments about
symbolic-functions? Should it be added to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ToolChain/CompilerFlags ?

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Regards,

Dimitri.