Re: unversioned shared library

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Eric Van Buggenhaut <Eric.VanBuggenhaut@AdValvas.be> immo vero scripsit:

> I never made a separate packages for the lib part (no -dev either)
> cause the package is really small but now some other DD asks me for an
> extra package, containing the lib (+ another -dev package) because his
> own package depends on the same library.
> 
> Upstream author never versioned his dynamic library. What am I
> supposed to do ? What soname should I use for the library ?


See libpkg-guide for some help.


adding something to:

libwhatever_la_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -release @VERSION@ -version-info 0:0:0
to Makefile.am should create something reasonable for an unstable shared 
library, suggest using this for the upstream (if they do versioning at all).


But I suggest reading libtool/autoconf/automake manual a bit.


regards,
	junichi

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