[geos-devel] CAPI and libtool (question for BSD users)

[strk at refractions.net]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 05:41:46PM +0100, Eric Faurot wrote:
> On 2/9/06, strk at refractions.net <strk at refractions.net> wrote:
> > The CAPI has a new function GEOSArea().
> > Libtool manual says that this should trigger
> > an INTERFACE_CURRENT increment, so from
> >
> > CURRENT=1
> > AGE=0
> > REVISION=1
> >
> > we should go to
> >
> > CURRENT=2
> > AGE=1 // support all previous interfaces
> > REVISION=0
> >
> > I know this will bring to libgeos_c.so.1.1.0
> > under GNU/Linux, but IIRC on BSD systems this
> > resulted in 2.0.0 instead, if not worst.
> >
> > Is there any BSD user willing to test this ?
> > Basically we need to check:
> >
> >         1) what would the resulting library
> >            SONAME be in BSD
> >
> >         2) if 2.0.0 wheter ABI compatibility
> >            is really broke or not (could
> >            be libtool is right)
> 
> As far as OpenBSD is concerned, version info <current>:<revision>:<age>
> results in lib<name>.so.<current>.<revision>, ignoring age completely.

But. Why ?!
Is it a libtool bug or is there a reason ?

--strk;

> That said, the package team decided to takeover library versioning in
> ports. So anyway I do not think it is really necessary for you to try
> to come up with a portable scheme wrt versioning, as it will eventually
> be controlled by the packagers. They just need to be informed of backward
> compatibility issues between releases to know if a major bump is required
> or not.
> 
> Eric.

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