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2004.07.11 17:32 "Re: unintentional ABI change between 3.5 and 3.6?", by Andrey Kiselev
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 09:27:09AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > My other reaction to this is that I didn't realize the soname was > > actually tied to the library version. My understanding was the > > libtool/shared library versions are generally now not tied directly > > to the public versions of libraries but instead are otherwise > > meaningless numbers updated whenever needed. This is the whole > > -version-info stuff for libtool, right? Perhaps we haven't been > > doing it that way for libtiff and should. That is, I think the > > sonames should be decoupled from the published release numbers. > > Right. Libtool's versioning rules should be strictly followed. The > numbering on the shared library should not be based on the release > version. Unfortunately, it is incompatible with the previous libtiff policy, where the soname was release dependent. We can use the right approach after the major changes in tha library (switching to TIFF64), but for 3.7.0 I have used the -version-number libtool switch to generate a soname --- that is compatible with the libtiff binaries, compiled from old sources. -- Andrey V. Kiselev Home phone: +7 812 5274898 ICQ# 26871517