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Hello,
new bugfix release of symlookup is ready!

It contains support for old bash-3.x in configure script, improved documentation and fixes some gcc warnings.

From now on symlookup may be considered as stable. Enjoy it!

Hello there,
next generation of symlookup is released!

The main feature of this release is Portage support, so now it is possible to query for ebuilds owning libraries with given symbols.

Aside from that some new features are available:
- Extended regular expressions may be used to limit file names to query.
- Man page was split into addional sections, filled with more details and should be more convenient now.
- RPM root directory may be specified now.
- CLI API was changed slightly:
--ar_only long option is replaced by --ar-only;
-v (--version) changed to -V and -v stands for --verbose.... read more

After a long time of being suspended symlookup is alive again.
So, what's new?

- Output now is even more tunable. You can use tree output and subtree levels will be compacted as needed.
- Table output is now available with optional header.
- RPM version 5 support is added.
- Configure script became faster and more customizable. You can disable stripping, force user-defined compilation flags. CPU detection became smarter and more reliable.
- And of course, a lot of bug fixes and code cleanups.... read more

symbol_lookup is an utility intended for object symbols search in dynamic or static symbol libraries. It looks up for libraries where given symbols are defined and optionally can find rpms provided these libraries.

A lot of work was done since v0.2 release:

rpm support is fully implemented and may be optionally disabled
at compile time, so users of non rpm-based systems will not
suffer from redundancy dependencies.... read more

Symbol_lookup is a system utility for searching object symbols defined in various kind of libraries.

For the sake of protection from free software proprietarization via patent hooks and similar stuff, the project license is changed to GNU GPL v.3.

The first public release was issued.
Feedbacks and testing are welcome.
I hope this peace of code will be usefull.