Re: versioning and soname

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

> from what I understand, at least in a Unix environment, if the library 
> version is

Note that by "Unix" you must be specifically describing ELF as it 
works for Linux.  There are "Unix" systems which do not work as you 
describe.

> If I now remove an interface I should set as a library version the following 
> one, right?
>
> 6:0:0
>
> and this will generate a soname
>
> 6.0.0
>
> i.e., from soname 1.4 we go directly to 6.0
>
> is this the intended behavior?

Seems like it.  Be sure to read the libtool documentation.  It is 
quite clear about what to do.

Bob
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