Re: darwin library_names_spec

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Peter O'Gorman wrote:
| I want to change the darwin spec to produce libfoo.dylib and
| libfoo.x.dylib instead of the current libfoo.dylib libfoo.x.dylib and
| libfoo.x.y.z.dylib, because the dynamic linker looks for libfoo.x.dylib
| which is currently a symlink, and many tools assume that the soname
| (libfoo.x.dylib) is the real library.

Removing the long versioned flavour will break the libtool versioning
paradigm.  Maybe you could make libfoo.dylib the symlink, and libfoo.x.dylib
the target?

Have a read of the `Library Interface Versions' nodes of the libtool manual
again with the darwin spec in mind.  Provided the scheme you propose doesn't
hobble the version system, and is friendlier to darwin, then I am okay with
changing it.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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