Hello,

I appreciate any reply regarding this.
The win32 build is supported in 2.2 series, and this issue remains.

Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.

On 3/9/08, Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  Please CC me as I am not subscribed.
>
>  Was something in the following discussion progressed?
>
>  http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-09/msg00053.html
>
>  From: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gvv at techie dot com>
>  """
>   Libtool translates the
>  5:4:3 into a system specific version number for the soname to help the
>  runtime loadee choose the best available library at runtime.  As I
>  said before, currently this mapping is wrong on Windows, and I think
>  the correct mapping is to always use the oldest supported interface
>  number -- in this case library2.dll -- when generating the soname.
>  This is explained fully in the version node of the libtool manual link
>  that was quoted earlier in the thread.
>  """
>
>  For example, I have current interface 7 and age 7 i get dll-0.dll, and
>  if I upgrade to current interface 8 and age 8 I also get dll-0.dll.
>
>  It looks like generating the suffix version based on delta is
>  incorrect, as you may have duplicate dll names.
>
>  It also looks like Gary is right,  having the version be the age
>  solves the issue, since as long as the library is backward compatible
>  to this age, the name is not change.
>
>  Best Regards,
>
> Alon Bar-Lev.
>


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