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Re: Converting a project to libtool
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Steve M. Robbins |
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Re: Converting a project to libtool |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:07:29 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:50:23AM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> Steve M. Robbins writes:
> > then you can just reverse-engineer
> > the computation that libtool does. Then choose values for Current,
> > Revision, and Age that give you the answer you want.
>
> Or choose fresh current, revision, age values that won't cause a clash
> with your current name now or in the future (or even a new
> "basename"), and put in a postinstall hook in the Makefile (.am) to
> add a symbolic link.
Your suggestion is the better one. I considered suggesting this, but
I hadn't thought of the clever backwards-compat symlink. Nice!
Remember to remove the symlink when you update Current.
-Steve