Re: libtool versioning and ABI

[Bruce Korb]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Joseph Garvin<address@hidden> wrote:
> I read a description of libtool's versioning here:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html
>
> What's confusing to me is that this way of handling versioning doesn't seem
> to pay attention to ABI. It mentions bumping numbers for interface changes
> (API) but not for changing size of data structures, editing the contents of
> inline functions, etc.

Those surely sound like rule 4 to me:
> If any interfaces have been added, removed, or changed since
> the last update, increment current, and set revision to 0.

changing structures or funtional interfaces (inline functions),
surely is an interface change.