Re: The case of libkmod's .so versioning attempts, and induced collisions

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 02/06/2012 06:35 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Much to my disappointment, I found that the newly-released libkmod v5
has made the following non-trivial change to its source tree, the latter
of which I want to bring to attention:
        commit e479598b7d19ae7be45bf5329d6e4df32d646c16
        diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
        index 69ab986..172d2ff 100644
        --- a/Makefile.am
        +++ b/Makefile.am
        -LIBKMOD_CURRENT=4
        +LIBKMOD_CURRENT=2
         LIBKMOD_REVISION=0
        -LIBKMOD_AGE=3
        +LIBKMOD_AGE=0

It doesn't really make sense to use libtool at all in this situation, 
there is no portability requirement. Perhaps -version-number instead of 
-version-info would make their lives easier as it does the calculations 
for them.

Peter