[PATCH 0/2] mtd-utils export libraries

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 15:24, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:37, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 15:15 +0100, Sidney Amani wrote:
>>> We are currently working on an UBI based userspace filesystem.
>>>
>>> We wanted to use libubi. So here is our patch to export shared
>>> libraries and headers. This is done for each library in LIBS.
>>
>> Hi, thanks for the patches. However, Mike (CCed) sent a major build
>> system rework patch recently, but there was an issue and I am waiting
>> for a new patch from him. Mike, could you please let me know if I
>> should wait for a new version of your patch or try to apply these
>> ones?
>
> i think the first question is, is this actually desirable.  a shared
> library implies stable ABI and a thought out API.  if neither of these
> have been done, but you still want to export the libs, the first thing
> to do would be to just export PIC static libs.

any feedback ?  the build cleanup was merged, but i think we need to
chat about what you're actually trying to accomplish before we export
shared libraries willy nilly ...
-mike