On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 19:54 +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> The problem occurred when workaround that makes soname two digits
> applied. With this change for the ABI version "20.0.1" the
> experimental
> library version become ".so.2001".
> After workaround removed in ABI version 21.0, the experimental
> library
> version will become ".so.210".
> "2001" is bigger value than "201" although it is a previous version
> of
> the library version, this can break the version comparisons.
>
> To fix this, introducing a temporary sub level versioning for the
> experimental libraries, so that minor version comparison will
> continue
> to work.
>
> After change experimental libraries will follow below versioning:
>
> DPDK version ABI version soname library name
> ------------ ----------- ------ ------------
> DPDK 19.11 20.0 .so.0.200 .so.0.200
> DPDK 20.02 20.0.1 .so.0.200.1 .so.0.200.1
> DPDK 20.05 20.0.2 .so.0.200.2 .so.0.200.2
> DPDK 20.11 21.0 .so.0.210 .so.0.210
> DPDK 21.02 21.1 .so.0.211 .so.0.211
>
> Note: After workaround removed in DPDK 20.11 and soname switch back
> to
> single digit this patch won't work and needs to be updated.
>
> Fixes: f26c2b39b271 ("build: fix soname info for 19.11
> compatibility")
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <
> ferruh.yi...@intel.com
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>
This solution looks like a good compromise to me. Thanks Ferruh.
--
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
