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Re: library version bump

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:12:21 -0700

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:24:08PM +0200, Patrick Monnerat wrote:
> Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > From what I understand you use that first digit for SONAME (5) and
> that'll be fine for you, and systems that can do this transition in a
> backwards compatible way will then use libtool and use 4 as the major
> number.
>
> Perfectly right: OS400 can use current alone (was 4, becomes 5). Others
> use current - age (was 4 - 0 = 4, becomes 5 - 1 = 4: unchanged).

So THAT's why libtool defines the version the way they do. It makes perfect
sense now.

>>> Dan

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