Ah... good idea.  I should have considered that.  Thanks.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Clinton Stimpson <clin...@elemtech.com>
wrote:

> On Friday, October 10, 2014 12:43:53 PM Steven Velez wrote:
> > Forgive me if this question has been answered before but with CMAKE
> 2.8.12
> > (I believe) xcode builds on OS X started generating shared libraries
> > decorated with the "VERSION" target property and symlinked by a bare
> dylib
> > name and one decorated with the SOVERSION.
> >
> > I understand this is common practice on many unixen, but it is
> complicating
> > our deployment and update logic (not cpack, sorry to say).
> >
> > Our application is fairly self-contained, so we would like to continue
> > generating only those bare-named dylibs, but we need to keep the
> SOVERSION
> > set to that the embedded "compatibility version" remains how we want it.
> >
> > I have not found a combination of values to these properties that does
> what
> > I would like, so I was wondering if there was a way to get the old
> > behavior.... perhaps with a policy or something?
> >
> > If there isn't a way to do it now, would there be an acceptable way to
> > specify this behavior that would be accepted as a patch?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steven
>
> That change was made to make the Xcode and Makefile generators consistent.
>
> To get what you want now (with both the older and newer CMake versions),
> you
> can remove the SOVERSION property and set the LINK_FLAGS property to pass -
> compatibilty_version to the linker.
>
> Clint
>
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