Quoting Dirk Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Friday 11 April 2008, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> > Yet GENERIC_LIB_SOVERSION is just set to "4". I miss something, >> > obviously. >> ELF doesn't support that. It should support two numbers: the minimum >> version and the current. That is, kdelibs 4.1 is backwards compatible with >> 4.0; Qt 4.4 is backwards compatible with 4.0 as well (including all >> in-between). > > Of course it does support that. It is called symbol versioning. It is quite a > lot of manual maintenance overhead, and quite difficult to do for C++ > (because it is hard to predict the mangled name). You'd need a good tool for > that. I don't know one.
There's more information about that in this article: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list Kde-buildsystem@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
