On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:29:26AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > 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.
Well, if so it was already messed up in previous releases, using 3:4:2 will set the library version to *-1.4.so.1.2.4 and the ABI incompatibility problem persists. regards Juergen -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:j...@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
