[Development] Linker script / symbols versions for private entries in Qt 6, regression from Qt 5?

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 09:00, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
<perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > > The point of those private APIs is that they change at every new version, so
> > > you want to require rebuilding stuff built with private APIs of the wrong
> > > version. If the symbol versioning does not ensure that, it is essentially
> > > useless.
> >
> > Yes and that's very useful for Linux distributions. That patch should be
> > upstreamed and enabled by default... but there should be an opt-out for
> > developers. Those of us who recompile Qt often and do regression testing may
> > need to run code across the version change boundaries without recompiling.
>
> ACK, I'll see what I can do.

The only patch I found is

https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/KDE:Qt:6.2/qt6-base/0001-Tell-the-truth-about-private-API.patch?expand=1

which changes the symbol to have the full major.minor.patch version on
it. That and the output of Thiago's eu-readelf makes me think
something is wrong on my side, as the code seems to be there.

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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
https://perezmeyer.com.ar/