[vsipl++] [patch] Building VSIPL++ shared libraries

Jules Bergmann jules at codesourcery.com
Mon Mar 2 14:02:01 UTC 2009


Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Brooks Moses wrote:
> 
>> Also, do we want to do versioned versions of the .so files?  The usual
>> habit from IBM's libraries is to create library.so.X.Y.Z as the actual
>> library (where X.Y.Z is the version number), and install library.so.X
>> and library.so as symlinks to it.
> 
> I don't expect this to be necessary, as we don't install libraries into 
> common directories. And, we haven't talked about API/ABI compatibility 
> yet, so right now two distinct releases are conceptually two distinct 
> products.

I think we want versioned .so files if we ever include shared libraries 
in our binary packages.

I'm going to punt for now to get this to our customer more quickly.

				-- Jules

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