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Re: gcc 4.6.0

On 7 June 2011 23:53, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>
>> P.S.: ?why is the lib for gmp-4.3.2 called libgmp.so.3.5.2????????
>
> A shared library's soname is not the same as the release number of the
> project, so they don't have to be the same.

See http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_91.html for more
on that subject, as well as
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html
which says "*Never* try to set the interface numbers so that they
correspond to the release number of your package."
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