Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH] Various fixes to build for android

[Eric S. Raymond]

Samuel CUELLA <address@hidden>:
> I see three problems here:
> 
> 1°) There is non-obvious requirement on the client code which wants
> to link against libgpsd: define the missing symbols.

Careful. "Client" doesn't mean "GPS client" here; this is strictly
an internals issue for gpsd/gpsmon/gpctl.
 
> 2°) The way it's currently implemented makes a strong assumption on
> the linker being able to "reverse link" the executable and the
> library.
> 
> 3°) The library has UND symbols, and these symbols are not defined
> in a another shared library that first library is linked to.
> 
> Using explicit function pointers will make the requirement/feature
> more obvious to the client code, will not make any assumption on the
> linker and will not let UND symbols on the so.

Simplifying the requirements for the linker is the kind of benefit I
was looking for.  OK, I'll merge it and document it on that basis.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>