>>>>> "Albert" == Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:53:17PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: >> >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > There is another way to solve the problem; we can change the SONAME in >> > the versioned filename varients: >> >> > Version 6 Xaw -> libXaw6.so.6.0.1 SONAME=libXaw.so.6 >> > Version 7 Xaw -> libXaw7.so.7.0.0 SONAME=libXaw.so.7 >> > Version 8 Xaw -> libXaw8.so.8.0.0 SONAME=libXaw.so.8 >> >> May be I am missing something here. Assuming you used -version-info to >> generate the libraries, libtool embeds the library SONAME with the major >> version into the library by default. > But libtool does not compute the SONAME across all platforms the same. I didn't know this. But trying to make -version-info get the SONAME you need is an abuse of libtool in any case. I think -version-number option available in recent versions of libtool is perfect for this. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal (rganesan at debian.org) | GPG Key: 1024D/5D8C12EA Web: http://employees.org/~rganesan | http://rganesan.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
