Re: versioning and soname

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:30:18PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Hi
> 
> from what I understand, at least in a Unix environment, if the
> library version is
> 
> current:revision:age
> 
> the soname will be
> 
> (current-age).age.revision

No,

The soname will be "libname.so.(current-age)"

The filename on the other hand will have the age and revision
added to it on atleast some of the OSs.


Kurt

> 
> won't it?
> 
> Now if I have a library version (the revision should not be
> important in this context)
> 
> 5:_:4
> 
> the soname will be
> 
> 1.4._
> 
> right?
> 
> 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?
> 
> thanks in advance
>       Lorenzo
> 
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