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Migrating existing libraries to libtool
From: |
Keith Packard |
Subject: |
Migrating existing libraries to libtool |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:14:36 -0800 |
I maintain a few X libraries and would like to see about transitioning
them from imake to automake. The stumbling block is that I cannot change
the library version numbers across this transition on any operating system.
libtool makes this transition system dependent as I must compute the
correct version-info string for each operating system to have the correct
library versions generated out the other end. This is contrary to the
desired goals of libtool.
I understand the goals of libtools versioning scheme and how it helps
people resolve library versioning issues on many systems. In this case,
it's preventing me from using the tool as I have a few existing systems
that I need to remain compatible with.
I propose that libtool take a new command line option '-version-number'
which explicitly sets the major/minor/revision number of the output
library. This would permit projects to explicitly manage version numbers
to remain compatible with pre-libtool releases.
-keith
- Migrating existing libraries to libtool,
Keith Packard <=