MySQL 5.1 symbols file update in Ubuntu

[Stefan Lesicnik]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While merging MySQL 5.1 from unstable to karmic the package failed to
> build. Debian introduced a debian/libmysqlclient16.symbols.amd64 file.
> However building the pristine Debian (5.1.36-4) package on Ubuntu leads
> to a dpkg-gensymbols warning with a build failure:
>
> dpkg-gensymbols: warning: debian/libmysqlclient16/DEBIAN/symbols doesn't
> match c ompletely debian/libmysqlclient16.symbols.amd64
> [...]
> dh_makeshlibs: dpkg-gensymbols returned exit code 1
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
>
> The whole build log can be found here:
> http://people.canonical.com/~mathiaz/mysql-dfsg-5.1_5.1.36-4.build.log.gz<http://people.canonical.com/%7Emathiaz/mysql-dfsg-5.1_5.1.36-4.build.log.gz>
>
> Is it enough to just update debian/libmysqlclient16.symbols.amd64 with
> the Ubuntu symbols (using the diff provided by the command above)? Or
> should something else be taken into account?



Hi Mathias,

I am not an expert on symbols at all, but I played a bit with it trying to
figure out what it was doing. I documented some stuff here that may help

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/stefanlsd/dpkg-gensymbols

Regards,

Stefan
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