pppd namespace pollution

Aaron J. Grier aaron at frye.com
Fri Mar 21 22:23:57 UTC 2003


On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:40:56PM +0100, Valette Eric wrote:
> 
> >So Tills proposal really sounds interesting to me. Although it 
> >should possibly be avoided to "rename" the offical calls (the 
> >user's interface) to these libraries...
> 
> I agree that if we can find a way to :
> 
> 	1) write reversible script to transform the sources from the 
> 	original package to the one used by rtems,
> 	2) write the reverse script,
> 	3) record both scripts in the rtems source tree,
> 	4) put more modules in library,
> 	5) manage the dependencies among libraries,
> 
> This would be  a nearly perfect solution :-)

how about weakening the global symbols?  would that be sufficient?

if it could be applied in a general fashion it could also be useful for
BSPs.

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  Aaron J. Grier  |   Frye Electronics, Tigard, OR   |  aaron at frye.com



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