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symlookup v.0.3.5 is released

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.

And what is next?

The top priority task is to implement portage queries alike rpm ones to find what package owns current file. It is likely to be implemented via qfile, because portage lacks C library API to access it database. This will be implemented in scheduled 0.4.0 release.

Aside from that, there are some other ideas like applying regexps for library file names or retrieving more detailed output about symbol from an object file. However, implementation of these features has lower priority.

Some other notes.

For this release aside from traditional source tarball I provide Gentoo EAPI 3 ebuild and binary packages for Scientific Linux CERN 5.4.

Project status returned to beta, because there are some new not so well tested features. It's hard to test program in majority of possible setups and environments, so reports are welcome.

Posted by Andrew 2010-04-26

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