Re: totally confused by versioning system of libtool...

[Bill Northcott]

On 15/05/2005, at 1:57 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> > I have so far only found one GNU libtool packages which correctly   
> > versions its libraries on MacOS X.  This is R and they seem to do  
> > it  with code in Makefile.in which overrides the libtool versioning.
>
> Looks like R builds a framework on darwin and uses  
> install_name_tool to encode the full path, as the library's  
> install_name (soname), so the library ends up being something like:
> install_name /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2/Resources/ 
> lib/lib
> compatibility_version 2
> current_version 2.1
>
> Please read the libtool versioning information, man 1 ld, and  
> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/ 
> MachOTopics/Articles/loading_code.html> (alternatively <http:// 
> tinyurl.com/a376e>).

I read this again before that last post.

Bill