Re: Migrating existing libraries to libtool

2003-02-17 Thread Keith Packard
Around 23 o'clock on Feb 17, Robert Boehne wrote: > Tough problem you've got here, I don't really see a way > around it without a new versioning flag other than > creating a libX??.la file for the last version of a library > you're attempting to install (which may or may not work anyway). Thanks

Re: Migrating existing libraries to libtool

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Boehne
Keith, Tough problem you've got here, I don't really see a way around it without a new versioning flag other than creating a libX??.la file for the last version of a library you're attempting to install (which may or may not work anyway). I would say that a patch to add this flag should warn the u

Re: Migrating existing libraries to libtool

2003-02-17 Thread Keith Packard
Around 2 o'clock on Feb 18, Simon Richter wrote: > To remain binary compatible, it suffices to have the same major version, > as programs are expected to link against the .so. file. Which > file this actually symlinks to is irrelevant. So in fact you start off > using -version-info :0:0 and then

Re: Migrating existing libraries to libtool

2003-02-17 Thread Simon Richter
Keith, > 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. To remain binary compatible, it suffices to have the same maj

Migrating existing libraries to libtool

2003-02-17 Thread Keith Packard
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 corr