[Stk] Linux soname

[Cristian Morales Vega]

OK, comparing the 4.4.2 and 4.4.3 version seems quite clear you don't
care about binary compatibility.
That's fine. But could you please use the libtool -release scheme in
future releases to avoid binaries linking to incompatible shared
libraries and to add some cross-distribution compatibility?

It would mean creating these two files:

/usr/lib/libstk-<full_version_number>.so (i.e. /usr/lib/libstk-4.4.4.so)
/usr/lib/libstk.so

And using the full "libstk-<full_version_number>.so" as soname
("-Wl,-soname," option)

Thanks.


On 6 March 2012 17:17, Cristian Morales Vega <reddwarf at opensuse.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looking at the 4.4.3 tarball I see the shared library is not built by
> default, and that even if the soname is libstk.so.4 no symlink is
> created for that. Then I look a bit more and see that Debian and
> Fedora patch the package to change the soname to libstk.so.0. So, to
> make this a bit clearer to me, does stk make any warranty about the
> ABI stability?
>
> And unrelated, but to avoid huge %installs in spec files, like in the
> Fedora case (http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=stk.git;a=blob;f=stk.spec;h=02bae3e2b650fc65bb8426ba7c41e959f003e22d;hb=HEAD).
> Would you be against a patch against 4.4.3 to use automake?
>
> Thanks.