Re: libtool versioning and ABI

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Vincent Torri wrote on Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:33:47AM CEST:
> 
> if i'm not mistaken, you can compute le libtool versioning from the
> version of the software. If the version of the software is X.Y.Z,
> the libtool version can be computed with : (X+Y).Z.Y

No, it can not, for two reasons: 1) the version of the software and the
shared library version are completely unrelated; 2) you are thinking in
terms of GNU/Linux shared library versioning only, not seeing that there
are other systems.

This thread is all about why your statement is wrong.  Please read it.

Cheers,
Ralf