Re: libtool versioning and ABI

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Michel Briand wrote:
> Does anyone uses "10" or "16" to refer to their ABI ? Hum... So those
> numbers have to be managed somewhere...
>
> If developers and users are ok with X.Y.Z then the CURRENT, REVISION
> and AGE is a different scheme to learn and to implement in the build
> system: that need to be managed in parallel. That's to say that if dev
> makes some changes in ABI and bumps the version up (say X.Y.Z+1),
> someone has to think about the weird libtool thing and update the
> libtool's versioning, making substractions and the like...

I am failing to understand the problem.  I use libtool to manage the 
versioning and the only way I would know what the final library name 
became (for a particular OS) is to do a build and look.

Bob
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