Gerald,
On 5/3/2009 12:40 PM, Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
I want to thank you all for the assistance, however I still find the libtool
manual not very illuminating. In particular, I used section 7.3 in make my
release number and, in particular, item 5 related to adding an interface
since last release as causing an addition to "age."
The big problem here is the three number do not seem independent, which
compounds the problem. Perhaps item 3 was what should have changes but item
5 clause was also true.
The numbers aren't independent at all. Don't try to make the library
interface version components into a software revision number. The scheme
is the way it is because the OS library loader uses the values in these
fields to determine if a particular library will support a particular
interface request. When a program attempts to load a library versioned
1.0.0, but the OS loader can only find 2.0.1, then the loader will go
ahead and load 2.0.1 because the '1' in the age field indicates that
this library supports 1.x interfaces as well as 2.x.
Jan answers the rest of your question in his response.
Regards,
John
