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Re: [PATCH] make freebsd-elf version type similar to linux version type
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Tijl Coosemans |
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Re: [PATCH] make freebsd-elf version type similar to linux version type |
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Thu, 27 Nov 2014 22:57:56 +0100 |
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:35:00 +0000 "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 27 Nov 2014, at 17:59, Tijl Coosemans <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On FreeBSD we have switched from using .so.$current as library extension
>> to .so.$major.$age.$revision where $major is $current-$age. Our package
>> of libtool has been patched similar to the patch below which you can see
>> here: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/libtool/files/
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> What about people who want to build packages for an old BSD a with the
> earlier versioning scheme? Is it possible to redo your patch so that the
> change only takes effect for *-freebsdx.y* (or similar) where x.y denotes
> the earliest release that fully supports the new versioning scheme?
FreeBSD has always supported the new scheme. The name of a library
doesn't matter at all. I think the reason the old scheme was chosen
was because the extension .so.X had always been used for non-libtool
libraries and .so.X.Y.Z was unusual.