- Gregor Jasny made c-ares link with libtool 's -export-symbols-regex option to

  only expose functions starting with ares_.

ares/CHANGES

   Changelog for the c-ares project
 
+* May 11 2009 (Daniel Stenberg)
+- Gregor Jasny made c-ares link with libtool 's -export-symbols-regex option to
+  only expose functions starting with ares_.
+
 * May 2 2009 (Yang Tse)
 - Use a build-time configured ares_socklen_t data type instead of socklen_t.
 

ares/Makefile.am

@@ -87,8 +87,9 @@ if NO_UNDEFINED
 UNDEF = -no-undefined
 endif
 
+EXPORT_SYMBOLS = -export-symbols-regex '^ares_[[:alnum:]].*'
 
-libcares_la_LDFLAGS = $(UNDEF) $(VER)
+libcares_la_LDFLAGS = $(UNDEF) $(VER) $(EXPORT_SYMBOLS)
 
 # Makefile.inc provides the CSOURCES and HHEADERS defines
 include Makefile.inc

ares/RELEASE-NOTES

@@ -12,9 +12,10 @@ Fixed:
 
  o ares_parse_*_reply() functions now return ARES_EBADRESP instead of
    ARES_EBADNAME if the name in the response failed to decode
+ o only expose/export symbols starting with 'ares_'
 
 Thanks go to these friendly people for their efforts and contributions:
 
- Phil Blundell, Japheth Cleaver
+ Phil Blundell, Japheth Cleaver, Yang Tse, Gregor Jasny
 
 Have fun!