Bill Allombert on Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:55:42 +0100 |
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Re: Strange mix of SO version for libpari.so |
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:27:04AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Compiling pari-2.5.3 (the problem goes back to at least 2.5.0) produces > a libpari.so.2.5.3, but uses -Wl,-soname,libpari.so.3. What is the > reason that this obvious mismatch has been put into the Makefile? There is no mismatch: libpari.so.2.5.3 is the filename, and libpari.so.3 is the SONAME. They do not have to be identical. > (libpari.so.2.5.3 will never be used, because all programs that link to > libpari.so will get the library's SONAME - so.3 - encoded in the > DT_NEEDED entries.) We provide a symlink from .so.3 to libpari.so.2.5.3 for that reason. All libpari.so.2.5.* version use the same SONAME which is so.3. (libpari.so.2.1.* was using so.1, libpari.so.2.3 was using so.2). For a fixed odd n, all libpari.so.2.n.* provide the same ABI and so keep the same SONAME so.(n-1)/2 See this FAQ entry <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/faq.html#versionnum> and especially the link <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/archives/pari-dev-0206/msg00092.html> Cheers, Bill.