Re: [Fedora-packaging] Re: PLEASE HELP - We need a policy for preventing man page name conflicts

[Orion Poplawski]

Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
>  
>  I suggest efforts would be better directed at fixing the real problem - 
>  i.e. the library namespace.
>  
>  Having an API that calls functions line() and such means it's just a 
>  question of time before you run into header conflicts where a program 
>  attempts to include two headers with the same function name (or 
>  statically link against two libraries with the same symbol, whether the 
>  function is used or not)... or link against the library and have a local 
>  function called line() defined.
>  
>  I suppose programming language makes a difference here, but at least 
>  this should apply to C code.
>   
Yes, things should get fixed upstream.  But in the meantime, we're 
packaging this stuff and need a policy for a workaround.

I'm inclined to rename all man3 functions to ncarg_<name> to fix my 
particular issue.  I'll file a note upstream as well.


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