Re: Migrating existing libraries to libtool

[Simon Richter]

Keith,

> I maintain a few X libraries and would like to see about transitioning 
> them from imake to automake.  The stumbling block is that I cannot change 
> the library version numbers across this transition on any operating system.

To remain binary compatible, it suffices to have the same major version,
as programs are expected to link against the .so.<major> file. Which
file this actually symlinks to is irrelevant. So in fact you start off
using -version-info <major>:0:0 and then go on as in the libtool
manual.

> libtool makes this transition system dependent as I must compute the 
> correct version-info string for each operating system to have the correct 
> library versions generated out the other end.  This is contrary to the 
> desired goals of libtool.

Hrm, how is that solved currently with imake?

   Simon

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