Re: Shared library versioning

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:26, Lasse Collin wrote:
> On 2011-06-14 Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Lasse Collin wrote:
>> > Please read the section "Understanding shared libraries
>> > number rules" (it's short):
>> >
>> >    http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/specialtopics.html
>>
>> If this web page text is correct, then I agree that libtool is doing
>> the wrong thing for OpenBSD.  But of course we should search for any
>> additional information and consult with relevant OpenBSD maintainers
>> before making any such change since FAQ text could easily be wrong.
>
> The FAQ is correct. Talking with maintainers can still be good, of
> course.
>
> Note that the problem applies to all *BSDs; it's not limited to OpenBSD.
> See my bug report and the references in it:
>
>    http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8765
>
> I think a similar versioning bug affects HP-UX. The versioning looks
> suspicious on a few other operating systems too. See my first message in
> this thread:
>
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2011-06/msg00006.html

Diego has looked at this stuff in depth on the FreeBSD side
-mike