Kamil Dudka wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation! It makes sense to me now. I was not
aware of the VERSIONINFO -> SONAME mapping magic.
You're welcome :-)
>> On each platform, soname is monotonically increasing, but this is
more
>> often on iSeries. As a consequence, a linux soname may skip ma
On Monday 20 July 2015 19:28:30 Patrick Monnerat wrote:
> The same discussion occurs each time there is some reason to change
> VERSIONINFO.
>
> The answer is: an soname bump always causes the linked programs to be
> rebuilt. However, we must talk about VERSIONINFO bump rather than SONAME
> bump (
Kamil Dudka wrote:
>> This won't change the final SONAME on platforms which support what
you
>> described, because they use C-A for SONAME. But others (i.e.:
iSeries)
>> will bump (they use C alone).
> What is the actual motivation to do so?
>If applications and other libraries are built agains