[ELGIS] Re: [SpatiaLite-Users] RFC: Renaming libspatialite.so, version 3, to libspatialite3.so

[Mathieu Baudier]

I would rather have only Spatialite v3, since to my knowledge there was
never an (officially) stable release of v2.4 anyhow.

I don't think we should in general maintain many versions of the
libraries, this will be a headache.

This is easier for higher level software like MapServer, although it
also requires some work to maintain both v5 and v6 
(are that many people using MapServer v5 on EL6?)

Moreover, we will soon have PostGIS 2 where the same question will
arise...

Cheers,

Mathieu

On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 08:38 +0100, Peter Hopfgartner wrote:
> Hi Sandro,
> 
> fiddling in the Makefile.am worked. What I wanted to achieve, was to 
> change the library name from libspatialitwe to libspatialite3. This 
> allows me to make rpm for both, version 2.4 and 3 and install them both. 
> Still, I'm not convinced, then this approach makes a lot of sense, since 
> any package, which would target spatialite, version 3, would need to 
> look for libspatialite3 and not libspatialite.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 12/14/2011 10:01 AM, a.furieri at lqt.it wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:44:35 +0100, Peter Hopfgartner wrote
> >> Does anybody know if I can change the name of the so file
> >> through configure. Or do I have to patch the package?
> >>
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > the current so name is fully supported by configure.
> > open this file:
> > -/src/Makefile.am
> >
> > and then find the following line:
> > libspatialite_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 4:0:0
> >
> > please note: after changing this value you have to
> > rebuild the configure scripts from scatch in order
> > to really apply the new value.
> > I usually adopt the following sequence:
> >
> > # make distclean
> > # aclocal
> > # libtoolize
> > # autoconf
> > # automake --add-missing -foreign
> > # ./configure
> > # make
> >
> > let me know any further advancement about this topic
> >
> > bye Sandro
> >
> 
>