On Wednesday 2012-02-08 03:45, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > On 02/07/2012 07:06 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >> >> Yes. We can always learn. It seems that this is not the case here. >> There are other projects releasing like this and no one pointed out to >> a reasonable argument against it. That means these arguments are not >> valid in our case: > > Again, use -version-number a:b:c to get libfoo.so.a.b.c instead of screwing > around with the calculations yourself and using -version-info. > > This flag is available since libtool-1.5.x and was added by the freedesktop.org > folks, iirc, to retain version number information when they moved to the > autotools. > > Using this flag should satisfy all involved. ---8<--- Change the kmod Makefile from using -version-info to -version-number to make it clear that the kmod project is not trying to subvert the libtool "interface" number concept, but in fact does not do libtool-style counting. --- Makefile.am | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: kmod-5/Makefile.am =================================================================== --- kmod-5.orig/Makefile.am +++ kmod-5/Makefile.am @@ -39,9 +39,8 @@ SED_PROCESS = \ %.pc: %.pc.in Makefile $(SED_PROCESS) -LIBKMOD_CURRENT=2 -LIBKMOD_REVISION=0 -LIBKMOD_AGE=0 +LIBKMOD_SO_MAJOR=2 +LIBKMOD_SO_MINOR=0 noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libkmod/libkmod-util.la libkmod_libkmod_util_la_SOURCES = libkmod/libkmod-hash.c \ @@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += libkmod/libkmod.sym EXTRA_DIST += libkmod/COPYING libkmod/README libkmod_libkmod_la_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) \ - -version-info $(LIBKMOD_CURRENT):$(LIBKMOD_REVISION):$(LIBKMOD_AGE) \ + -version-number ${LIBKMOD_SO_MAJOR}:${LIBKMOD_SO_MINOR} \ -Wl,--version-script=$(top_srcdir)/libkmod/libkmod.sym libkmod_libkmod_la_DEPENDENCIES = libkmod/libkmod-util.la \ ${top_srcdir}/libkmod/libkmod.sym -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html