Re: Shared Library version numbers

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>]

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de> writes:

> Hardcoding the version number in the Makefile with libdb.so-version=
> is also not possible, because we have different numbers on ix86 and
> alpha.
> A solution would be nice, so that Distributors could add the old
> libdb and libnss_* modules from glibc 2.0 to glibc 2.1 for
> compatibility reasons. The NSS modules are necessary for static linked
> programs like rpm.
> 
> Any Ideas ? Or should I create more then one add-on, with the only 
> difference in the various version numbers for different platforms ?

This is exactly the problem why I haven't done it myself.  I don't see
a possibility but providing the rules to generate the library in the
Makefile and not relying on the rules from the Makerules file etc.

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