Re: libtool versioning and ABI

[Vincent Torri]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Michel Briand wrote:

> I've looked into many OSS and found in Makefile.am only 2 cases :
>
> - version-info 1:0:0 (the guys there didn't want to bother with
>  libtool versioning apparently... ;))
>
> - version-info with the X.Y.Z version "back crafted" to make
>  the soname version read the same as X.Y.Z

if i'm not mistaken, you can compute le libtool versioning from the 
version of the software. If the version of the software is X.Y.Z, the 
libtool version can be computed with : (X+Y).Z.Y

Of course the version of the software must be correctly updated.

Vincent Torri