Re: gnutls 2.12.17

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 03/04/2012 08:41 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:


>> And at least on linux this does the correct thing, soname is unchanged
>> (ABI compability has been preserved!) which is the important as it is
>> the used by the dynamic linker. The filename changed from
>> libgnutls.so.26.21.9 to libgnutls.so.26.22.0, which has no effect on
>> any packages using libgnutls (unless they dlopen the full filename).
>>
>> Does FreeBSD behave differently?
>> cu andreas
> 
> Yes, FreeBSD has:
> lib/libgnutls.so
> lib/libgnutls.so.47
> 
> After the update, it will become
> lib/libgnutls.so
> lib/libgnutls.so.48
> 
> so all the applications that link to libgnutls has to be recompiled,
> which is unnecessary as far as I understand.


Indeed it is unnecessary in this case.

> However, libtool documentation indeed tells to bump current version:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html


Could it be a libtool issue in FreeBSD?

regards,
Nikos