Re: patch fixing FreeBSD shlib versioning

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Jean-Yves,

Sorry for the delay.

* Jean-Yves Lefort wrote on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:54:15PM CEST:
> Hi, could you please commit the attached patch (for branch-1-5)? It
> fixes shared library versioning on FreeBSD.

Could you point me to the FreeBSD specific change that prompts this?
I looked for it now, but could not find it.  It seems the libtool port
was reorganized somewhat.

IIRC there was some mismatch between the version-type the FreeBSD
ports-installed Libtool used and the one GNU Libtool uses; the danger is
that when we change this, simple recompilations of some packages will
cause to weird failures.  I agree that if the mismatch is existent,
we have a problem anyway.  But I'd like to know about the existing
installed base of libraries, so we can estimate the amount of breakage.

One idea could be to make the transition only when going to Libtool-2.0.
But honestly at the moment I feel I have too little knowledge to be able
to decide that.  It'd be good if FreeBSD ports maintainers could comment
on this (are you one by chance?).

> Btw, I could not find the part of HEAD which numbers shared libraries,
> maybe you can point it out for me?

The following files more or less correspond each other:
branch-1-5      HEAD
------------------------------------------
ltmain.in       libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh
libtool.m4      libltdl/m4/libtool.m4

I hope that helps a bit.

Cheers,
Ralf