Re: pr-msvc-support: building .DLLs with symbols

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2009-09-22 02:15 skrev Christopher Hulbert: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: Den 2009-09-21 12:35 skrev Christopher Hulbert: Apart from that, your suggestion will "litter" dependency_libs with -LIBPATH: and it will not work for absolute paths (unless you're using identit

Improve versioning algorithm description

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
The current text in the "Updating version info" node is seen as hard to understand by some users, IIRC we've had a few reports about this in the past. Richard made me try to reformulate it now. What do you think about this additional explanation? OK to apply (and ok to add you to THANKS, Richard)

Re: Improve versioning algorithm description

2009-09-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: The current text in the "Updating version info" node is seen as hard to understand by some users, IIRC we've had a few reports about this in the past. Richard made me try to reformulate it now. What do you think about this additional explanation? OK

Re: Improve versioning algorithm description

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:19:26AM CEST: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >The current text in the "Updating version info" node is seen as hard to > >understand by some users, IIRC we've had a few reports about this in the > >past. Richard made me

Re: Improve versioning algorithm description

2009-09-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: The most important question is whether it is correct, not only for Linux. That's what I'm not yet certain about. Something tells me that it is not correct for Windows. Under Windows I see a lack of versioning and libtool adds a simple number like

Re: Improve versioning algorithm description

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:47:55AM CEST: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >The most important question is whether it is correct, not only for > >Linux. That's what I'm not yet certain about. > > Something tells me that it is not correct for Windows. Und

Re: Improve versioning algorithm description

2009-09-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> >> The most important question is whether it is correct, not only for >> Linux. That's what I'm not yet certain about. > > Something tells me that it is not correct for Windows. Ralf's description is correct also for Window