Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 13:14 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Pá, 2015-09-04 at 00:38 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > On 08/28/2015 03:23 PM, Josh Stone wrote:
> > > I update from nss-3.19.3-1.0.fc22.x86_64 to nss-3.20.0-1.0.fc22.x86_64
> > > this morning, and now I get this stderr output:
> > > 
> > > $ /usr/bin/stap -V >/dev/null
> > > /usr/bin/stap: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in
> > > shared object, consider re-linking
> > > 
> > > The message comes from ld.so; that symbol comes from libssl3.so.
> > > 
> > > Should I be worried about this?  Do we need a rebuild of all
> > > nss-dependent packages to clear this message?
> > 
> > Well, it's an ABI break. If you care about ABI issues then the change
> > causing the breakage needs reverting and the broken packages need to
> > be rebuilt.
> 
> The size of the SSL_ImplementedCiphers array is not part of the public
> API so it is not really an ABI break in practice. However ld.so of
> course cannot know that. Is there any way to make the message disappear
> other than rebuild of the dependent package? I am afraid that
> unfortunately not.

If it not public why is it exported in the first place ?

Simo.

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