Re: [openvrml-develop] library soname

[Nobuhiro I. <iwa...@ni...>]

Hi,

2011/4/21 Braden McDaniel <br...@en...>:
> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 17:22 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> By update to 0.18.7 , library soname was changed from 9 to 8.
>> This is caused by a change of LIBOPENVRML_LIBRARY_VERSION.
>>
>> Though API is not changed (you did not change interface number) ,in
>> much distoribution,
>> re-build is necessary for the application to use this library.
>>
>> Could you coordinate LIBOPENVRML_LIBRARY_VERSION not to downgrade soname?
>
> Sigh.
>
> Sorry, I screwed this up.  The Libtool version should have been updated
> to 10:0:1 for this release; but I did it wrong and set it to 9:5:1.
>
> As far as 0.18.7 is concerned, I suggest distributions fix this at make
> time; e.g.:
>
>        $ make LIBOPENVRML_LIBRARY_VERSION=10.0.1
>
> I can rush out a 0.18.8 release that fixes this; or do you think that
> would do more harm than good?

Many developers and pakcage maintainter may not watch this ML.
If  you release 0.18.8, they and I are glad :-).

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

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