library sonames in installed 4.4beta1

Jani Monoses jani.monoses at gmail.com
Sat May 6 16:37:58 CEST 2006


Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Jani Monoses wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> can others confirm or invalidate that 4.4 beta 1 installs 
>> libxfce4util.so.2 and libxfcegui4.so.4 ?
>>
>> Even though the version string in the configure files says otherwise
>> (soname major version of 3 and 5 respectively) at least here a build
>> results in the library versions I mentioned.
> 
> The version info in the configure file (libxfce4util) says interface 3,
> age 1, so it's 3 - 1 = 2.

Thanks, it's a bit clearer now. I thought current from libtool directly 
translates to soname major. So in case of libxfcegui4 (5.0.1) the soname 
is not changed.

As for libxfce4util was age reset to 0 (and consequently soname major 
needs bump) because of removing some utf8 handling functions which makes 
the library not backwards compatible with 4.4beta1?

Jani




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