Re: libtool versioning and ABI

[Vincent Torri]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * 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.

i've read it. But the way we change X, Y and Z follows exactly the libtool 
versioning 
(http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Updating-version-info) 
with the formula above.

Vincent Torri