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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2008-08-24 21:26:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2008-08-24 21:26:42 +0000 |
| commit | 8dabd34432bc77408c58bdfb575510f671e5ed26 (patch) | |
| tree | 86bdf164266026eeef8a8faf9a7c2f2948bbfe12 /lib | |
| parent | a104a365e355391002ebd4424daa4e6c49b92de6 (diff) | |
Introduced the configure option --enable-soname-bump that lets a user enforce
an SONAME bump.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Makefile.am | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/README.curl_off_t | 15 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Makefile.am b/lib/Makefile.am index 903e1a959..ff974f4d4 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile.am +++ b/lib/Makefile.am @@ -58,7 +58,20 @@ INCLUDES = -I$(top_builddir)/include \ -I$(top_builddir)/lib \ -I$(top_srcdir)/lib -VERSION=-version-info 5:0:1 +if SONAME_BUMP +# +# Bumping of SONAME conditionally may seem like a weird thing to do, and yeah +# it is. The problem is that we try to avoid the bump as hard as possible, but +# yet it is still necessary for a few rare situations. The configure script will +# attempt to figure out these situations, and it can be forced to consider this +# to be such a case! See README.curl_off_t for further details. +# +# This conditional soname bump SHOULD be removed at next "proper" bump. +# +VERSIONINFO=-version-info 6:0:1 +else +VERSIONINFO=-version-info 5:0:1 +endif # This flag accepts an argument of the form current[:revision[:age]]. So, # passing -version-info 3:12:1 sets current to 3, revision to 12, and age to @@ -99,7 +112,7 @@ if MIMPURE MIMPURE = -mimpure-text endif -libcurl_la_LDFLAGS = $(UNDEF) $(VERSION) $(MIMPURE) $(LIBCURL_LIBS) +libcurl_la_LDFLAGS = $(UNDEF) $(VERSIONINFO) $(MIMPURE) $(LIBCURL_LIBS) # Makefile.inc provides the CSOURCES and HHEADERS defines include Makefile.inc diff --git a/lib/README.curl_off_t b/lib/README.curl_off_t index fa687c67b..b60179da0 100644 --- a/lib/README.curl_off_t +++ b/lib/README.curl_off_t @@ -42,7 +42,14 @@ track and detect by users of libcurl. SONAME ------ -We opted to not bump the soname for the library, simply because soname bumping -is causing a lot of grief and moaning all over the community so we try to keep -that at minimum. Also, our selected design path should be 100% backwards -compatible for the vast majority of all libcurl users. +We opted to not bump the soname for the library unconditionally, simply +because soname bumping is causing a lot of grief and moaning all over the +community so we try to keep that at minimum. Also, our selected design path +should be 100% backwards compatible for the vast majority of all libcurl +users. + +Enforce SONAME bump +------------------- + +If configure doesn't detect your case where a bump is necessary, re-run it +with the --enable-soname-bump command line option! |