Hi Kean, * Kean Johnston wrote on Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:08:33AM CET: > > I have encountered at least two applications so far that do a realpath() > on a shared library, and then check the SONAME to ensure that they match > a compile-time constant. I know, the applications are retarded.
Yes. Very retarded. Please file bugs with them. > But > libtool is a program that is supposed to make creating shared libraries > easier, and having the ability to actually have control over things like > the SONAME make it more generically useful, and caters for situations > that we may not have forseen. The current scheme uses soname_spec as the > sole mechanism for setting the SONAME for a shared library. This is > a calculated name based on the current library version. However, as > a programmer, I may know that even though shared library version Y > has some incompatible interfaces relative to version X, that those > chages are a pure superset of X. *snip* I can only agree with Christoph here, that this overlaps with Keith Packard's proposed patch. If you have (too) much spare energy, ;) you can try to get his latest version working decently on w32 systems, AIX (or at least degrade gracefully), and there'll be a good chance of it going in right after 2.0. Oh, and for modules it may be nice, too (optionally). ;-) Cheers, Ralf > 2005-10-24 Kean Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * ltmain.in: Provide a mechanism for explicitly setting the value > of SONAME in a shared library using an optional 4th argument to > --version-info. > > * doc/libtool.texi: Document it. *snip*
