On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:15:29AM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 12/11/2019 10:26 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > The soname for each stable ABI version should be just the ABI version major > > number without the minor number. Unfortunately both major and minor were > > used causing version 20.1 to be incompatible with 20.0. > > > > This patch fixes the issue by switching from 2-part to 3-part ABI version > > numbers so that we can keep 20.0 as soname and using the final digits to > > identify the 20.x releases which are ABI compatible. This requires changes > > to both make and meson builds to handle the three-digit version and shrink > > it to 2-digit for soname. > > What about following, does it makes file names better? > > DPDK_20.02 (ABI_20.1): > SONAME: .so.20.0 > library name: .so.20.1 > .so.20.0 --> .so.20.1 > .so --> .so.20.1 > > > DPDK_20.05 (ABI_20.2): > SONAME: .so.20.0 > library name: .so.20.2 > .so.20.0 --> .so.20.2 > .so --> .so.20.2 > > Personally, I really don't like having symlinks for libraries with the same "level" of version number, i.e. while linking from 20.0 -> 20.0.1 is fine, linking from 20.1 to 20.0 seems wrong, and would also potentially cause issues with having 19.11 installed in parallel to another version.
/Bruce
