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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc 4.6.0
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimyjwdRxMoe9Uprb8z3MxXRoOcdrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=1+poGU6xaQWk_Gj3FmCAkiDAg6Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 7 June 2011 23:53, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>
>> P.S.:  why is the lib for gmp-4.3.2 called libgmp.so.3.5.2????????
>
> A shared library's soname is not the same as the release number of the
> project, so they don't have to be the same.

See http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_91.html for more
on that subject, as well as
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html
which says "*Never* try to set the interface numbers so that they
correspond to the release number of your package."

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-08  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-04 17:44 Bill Cunningham
2011-06-04 17:49 ` Axel Freyn
2011-06-04 17:56 ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-04 18:28   ` Bill Cunningham
2011-06-04 18:51     ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-06 21:13       ` kevin diggs
2011-06-07  0:03         ` Kai Ruottu
2011-06-07  7:54           ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-07  8:09             ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-07 19:40               ` kevin diggs
2011-06-08  6:05                 ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-08  9:05                   ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2011-06-08 11:09                   ` Andrew Haley
2011-06-08 12:03                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-08 22:14                   ` kevin diggs
2011-06-09  4:26                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-06-07 19:55   ` David Kirkby

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