Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: libtool (was CVS and SSE)

[Sven M. H. <pe...@gm...>]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:54:55PM -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation.  I think we're pretty much in agreement actually.
> As long as the library's internal SONAME is "libGL.so.1" and we've got the
> libGL.so.1 and libGL.so symlinks we shouldn't break linking with existing
> applications.

We can pass the SONAME explicitly to the linker via libtool (or can't we?) !
Then we can let libtool do pretty much anything it wants with the name.
Additionally, I suggest we do use my idea about reverse-calculating the
version-info, because it doesn't break anything, gives us a fixed way of
knowing the version-info even though we don't control the interface, and it
leaves us with our usual naming conventions at least on Linux and those some
others.


> It's a shame that revision = 030500 doesn't directly work.  I could probably
> live with revision = 350 as you mentioned in your followup...

Right, but 10 minor numbers isn't all too much. We'll likely run short sooner
or later.


> > while trying to apply the libtool technique I suggested I found this: libtool
> > doesn't accept 30500 as a "nonnegative integer" either. ?:o
> > I've tried 350 and it works, so I guess this is just an arbitrary limit on the
> > number of digits. Should I ask the libtool people for help?
> 
> I'm curious why revision 30500 doesn't work.  Do you know if the revision
> is stored as a number or a string?  I'd at least ask the libtool people why
> 30500 doesn't work.

I'll try to look the cause of this up myself and enquire about it with the
libtool guys as soon as we wrap this discussion up.


-Sven

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