On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Juergen Daubert <j...@jue.li> wrote: > Hello, > > The libraries of libevent 1.4.13 and older are versioned by > libtool as > > *-1.4.so.2.1.3 > > whereas libevent 1.4.14 is using > > *-1.4.so.1.2.3 > > This breaks every application linked against 1.4.13 if you > upgrade to version 1.4.14. I don't think that this is the > desired behaviour, but a bug caused by the wrong VERSION_INFO > string in Makefile.am. It is VERSION_INFO = 3:3:2 but should > probably be VERSION_INFO = 3:4:1 and resulting library-names > like *-1.4.so.2.1.4. >
Ugh, how annoying! I think this warrants a 1.4.14b, if Niels agrees. (1.4.14b should contain this fix, and nothing else.) Actually, I think the VERSION_INFO should be 3:4:2, since 1.4.14 is binary compatible not only with 1 but 2 previous releases. This raises a related question: were we right to drop the use of the -release flag in libevent 2.0? We took a flag from Zack Weinberg to do so back in 2009 [1], but I'm not so sure right now. What do people with more libtool experience think? Libevent is the only library I've used with libtool. [1] The patch and rationale are in git commit 0cc10e419c6d1bca; non-git-users can see them here: http://levent.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=levent/libevent;a=commit;h=de0096f4f3fa35fe961c4b0e59d85617d5aa2689 yrs, -- Nick *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
