From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Blandy To: gdb-patches@cygnus.com Cc: bfd@cygnus.com Subject: Re: [gdb 19981224] Enable linking gdb against shared libbfd Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:50:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <199901031957.OAA20819@subrogation.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00025.html In a long-ago discussion on whether GDB should use a shared BFD, Ian Taylor said: > Correct: there are no current plans to use -release when building a > BFD shared library. > > I believe the correct solution for BFD is to rename the shared library > based on the BFD version number. However, this is not currently > implemented. Why is including the BFD version in the shared library name preferable to using -release?