Re: Alternate SONAME values

[Ganesan Rajagopal]

>>>>> "Albert" == Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:53:17PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
>> >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Packard <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > There is another way to solve the problem; we can change the SONAME in
>> > the versioned filename varients:
>> 
>> > Version 6 Xaw      -> libXaw6.so.6.0.1 SONAME=libXaw.so.6
>> > Version 7 Xaw      -> libXaw7.so.7.0.0 SONAME=libXaw.so.7
>> > Version 8 Xaw      -> libXaw8.so.8.0.0 SONAME=libXaw.so.8
>> 
>> May be I am missing something here. Assuming you used -version-info to
>> generate the libraries, libtool embeds the library SONAME with the major
>> version into the library by default. 

> But libtool does not compute the SONAME across all platforms the same.

I didn't know this. But trying to make -version-info get the SONAME
you need is an abuse of libtool in any case. I think -version-number option
available in recent versions of libtool is perfect for this.

Ganesan

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