I maintain a few X libraries and would like to see about transitioning them from imake to automake. The stumbling block is that I cannot change the library version numbers across this transition on any operating system.
libtool makes this transition system dependent as I must compute the correct version-info string for each operating system to have the correct library versions generated out the other end. This is contrary to the desired goals of libtool. I understand the goals of libtools versioning scheme and how it helps people resolve library versioning issues on many systems. In this case, it's preventing me from using the tool as I have a few existing systems that I need to remain compatible with. I propose that libtool take a new command line option '-version-number' which explicitly sets the major/minor/revision number of the output library. This would permit projects to explicitly manage version numbers to remain compatible with pre-libtool releases. -keith _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
