Peter,
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> > A few makefiles have a LIB_VERS value which is different from the
> > PKG_VERS value. However, I can't see anywhere this is used, other than
> > being edited into the dates file. There are at least some cases where
> > the PKG_VERS and LIB_VERS are substantially different (SLALIB was where
> > I noticed this, and it has 2.4-12 and 1.6 respectively).
> since the point of LIB_VERS is to stop applications loading shareable
> libraries that are younger than the ones used when it was built, we
> clearly don't need this distinction any longer (since no new applications
> and libraries will be produced without a complete rebuild, or is that
> produced ever). So drop it.
Delighted.
> In actual fact this has been redundant (unused in fact) since we stopped
> doing incremental updates and more-or-less stopped producing shareable
> libraries. The only slight exception might be the libraries produced to
> wrap ADAM applications, but I doubt this will be a problem for them.
I'll be setting automake to produce both shareable and static libraries
in fact, simply because it's no harder than producing only static ones.
See you,
Norman
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