Re: totally confused by versioning system of libtool...

[Bill Northcott]

On 15/05/2005, at 10:06 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> > Possibly, the last line could equally be:
> > install_name libfoo.2.dylib compatibility_version 3.0.0   
> > current_version 3.2.15
> > That would have the same effect on Darwin, if applied consistently.
>
> The encoded current_version is for informational purposes only,  
> nothing uses it, compatibility_version is used by dyld (darwin's  
> dynamic linker) when loading libraries. It checks that the library  
> version it loaded has a compatibility_version greater than or equal  
> to the one it saw when it was created by the static linker.
On second thoughts, perhaps I do get it.  Or maybe it is to late at  
night, and it will make sense in the morning.

Bill