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Re: library version bump

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 17:24:29 -0700

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:01:51PM -0400, Joe Nardone wrote:
> I'm thinking I'm wrong here. Libtool is pretty strict about what they
> mean by an interface change. If you say that the interface has
> changed (add/remove/change API calls) then supposedly the current #
> should get bumped. We should be able just increment the "age" value
> (the third value) appropriately so that the linker correctly uses it
> for "soname -1" (since it is backwards compatible).

I just mentioned in another message that it turns out "current" doesn't
necessarily map directly to SONAME, which means that when I thought libtool
was advocating a SONAME bump, it wasn't.

>>> Dan

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