Linux Binary Release

[gdal_dev_reader]

hi,

why don't you use the standard version control mechanism, then? :)

on my systems (debian linux) i use: 
make WITH_SONAME="-Wl,-soname,libgdal.so.$(major)" \
GDAL_SLIB="\$(GDAL_ROOT)/libgdal.\$(SO_EXT).\$(GDAL_VER)" \
GDAL_SLIB_LINK="-L\$(GDAL_ROOT) -lgdal"

and i get what looks like a standard shared object (and happily
compile programs with -lgdal instead of -lgdal.1.1 :))

cheers,
alessandro