Re: How does libtool decide which so to link against?

[Giles Anderson]

On Saturday 30 October 2010 08:46:28 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Do you know of a definitive guide & explanation of the correct way to
> > define/use SONAMEs etc?
> 
> There is not always one correct way.  However, there is one way that the
> Libtool manual recommends, and following it has turned out useful for
> both developers and users of a library.  The Libtool approach is to not
> change the name part of the SONAME (on most systems, anyway), but only
> to modify the version part, with a custom, per-system mapping from
> abstract interface numbers to SONAME version.  The API is described in
> info Libtool Versioning.

Thanks Ralf