Re: Alternate SONAME values

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:53:17PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
> >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Packard <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > There is another way to solve the problem; we can change the SONAME in
> > the versioned filename varients:
> 
> > Version 6 Xaw       -> libXaw6.so.6.0.1 SONAME=libXaw.so.6
> > Version 7 Xaw       -> libXaw7.so.7.0.0 SONAME=libXaw.so.7
> > Version 8 Xaw       -> libXaw8.so.8.0.0 SONAME=libXaw.so.8
> 
> May be I am missing something here. Assuming you used -version-info to
> generate the libraries, libtool embeds the library SONAME with the major
> version into the library by default. 

But libtool does not compute the SONAME across all platforms the same.

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albert chin (address@hidden)