Libtool does things a bit differently. I'm going to quote some from the
'libtool-doc' info file in Node: Versioning. ('info libtool' and either
pick it from the menu or type 'g Versioning').
"*_Never_* try to set the interface numbers so that they correspond
to the release number of your package. This is an abuse that only
fosters misunderstanding of the purpose of library versions."
and
"1. Start with version information of `0:0:0' for each libtool library."
The way libtool does versions is an attempt to clarify what library versions
are binary compatible and which are not. Please read Debian Policy section
11.2 for information on what to do with libtool's .la files.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 04:32:35PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> (Please cc: me on replies, I'm trying to subscribe but the mailing list seems
> to be slow in sending confirm requests)
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a package of fam (available from
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/), and I have some trouble wrt libtool.
>
> They use a selfcontained version of libtool in the build process, to build a
> shared library. The resulting library gets named libfam.so.0.0.0
> This seemed rather odd to me, as the source distribution is already at 2.6.4
> (it's an opensource release of an old SGI Irix tool), and I was correct in
> being suspicious: in a rpm spec file distributed with the sources there were
> commented out lines in the `%files' section that referenced a libfam.1.0 file
> (but a comment also seemed to indicate failure of correct soname generation
> on rpm systems).
>
> I suspect this is probably just a problem with the way libtool gets called
> (either incorrect or incomplete), but I'm not too good on reading
> Makefile.in's and apparently (to make things even more complicated) the
> libtool isn't even really distributed but gets generated from a file
> `ltconfig' in the top source directory.
>
> I'd really like some help to build the library with a correct major and minor
> version number. It's not that I can't build it or it doesn't work right now,
> but I fear severe breakage if one of the version numbers changes.
>
> Regards,
>
> Filip
>
> --
> If we knew what it was we were doing, we wouldn't call it research.
> -- Albert Einstein
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