-export-symbols-regex and -export-symbols

[Paul Elliott]

For the program I am working on, for which I do not write the source code, the 
list for the names of externals that should be exposed to the user is:
anything starting with swe_
+
33 miscellaneous symbols.

If the ABI is extended additional symbols will probably start with swe_

It would be nice of libtool supported both -export-symbols-regex and 
-export-symbols. Then I could describe everything starting with swe_ using 
-export-symbols-regex and the miscellaneous list with -export-symbols.

Unfortuantely using both leads to an error. Is there any reason the use of 
both could not be supported in future versions of libtools?

Under the present system I have 2 choices:

1) one long list  of all the symbols which will have to be updated if the ABI 
is extended.

2) One huge regex like this.

> swe_regex='(^swe_)'
> swe_regex+='|(^afl2planet$)'
> swe_regex+='|(^calc$)'
>
>  31 other entries like this here
>
> swe_regex+='|(^to_mean_ekl$)'
> 

> 
> libswe_la_LDFLAGS = \
> 
>       -lm         \
>       -export-symbols-regex "$(swe_regex)"

This probably won't have to be updated if more swe_ symbols are added, but it 
is ugly. What is the limit on regex size?

Which is best practice?


Thank You.

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