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Re: Why did libffi change it's soname?

From: Paolo Bonzini <paolo dot bonzini at polimi dot it>
To: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Andreas Tobler <a dot tobler at schweiz dot ch>, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>, libffi-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:34:16 +0200
Subject: Re: Why did libffi change it's soname?
References: <16588.28928.856002.919285@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

There is no other change mentioned which would rectify a change of the
soname of the library. Was this done intentionally? When exactly did
the ABI change?

Never. Andreas took care of completing, posting and checking in my patch that converted libffi to Autoconf 2.5x. My patch was very preliminary (as in, I only checked that it bootstrapped on i686-pc-linux-gnu), and he did not check as well the soname.

Currently libffi is the only library using 'libtool --release' to
determine the soname of the shared library.

And that's completely wrong.

It probably went undetected because libjava uses a convenience library to link with libtool.

Paolo

References:
- Why did libffi change it's soname?
  - From: Matthias Klose

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