On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:30:22PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
: needs a way to be able to set the soname. Yes, this is bad in general.
: It defeats the whole purpose of libtool, but the problem is that Mesa
: is providing another version of an existing library. I can imagine
: things like Motif (lesstif), OpenInventor (Coin, mostly non issue now)
: are in the same situation.
Just to digress; for Coin we use the soname libCoin.so.#.#.# (normal
libtool version-info) because Open Inventor is C++, and achieving
ABI-compatibility with it is impossible. I don't even think either
SGI or TGS Open Inventor is ABI-compatible with itself for many
version-increments at a time. Of course, your point is still valid
for the situation with Mesa and Lesstif.
Another digression; I'd like to know what you meant with the "mostly non
issue" comment.
Lars J
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