Hello Gerald, * Gerald I. Evenden wrote on Sat, May 23, 2009 at 05:33:43PM CEST: > Original library was setup and installed as: > > libproject_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 0:0:0 $(ALDFLAG) $(BLDFLAG) > > I added a new procedure and modified several others (without changing their > interface). > > Refering to 7.3 of libtool I change the above to: > > libproject_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 1:1:1 $(ALDFLAG) $(BLDFLAG)
Going from 0:0:0 straight to 1:1:1 is senseless. If you increase CURRENT, then in the same step you can reset REVISION to zero; see info Libtool "Updating version info" Only in the next update it makes sense to bump REVISION again. > I uninstalled the original library, did a "autoreconf -vfi", "./configure", > and checked src/Makefile to see that 1:1:1 was still in the procedure and > then did a "make" followed by "sudo make install" with the following results > in /usr/local/lib: > > libproject.a > libproject.la > libproject.so > libproject.so.0 > libproject.so.0.1.1 <--- previously 0.0.0 > > What is going on?? Looks normal for GNU/Linux. The point is that libtool takes the -version-info triple, and from that computes some system-specific version number or set of version numbers that try to match the semantics defined in the Libtool manual, chapter "Libtool versioning". The specific computation formula is a detail of libtool, you should not need to care about. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
