Patch: RFC: bump libtool version

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Sat Jan 20 07:57:00 GMT 2007


Matthias Klose writes:
 > Tom Tromey schrieb:
 > > Matthias pointed out on irc that we ought to bump the libgcj version
 > > on trunk.  I think we also need this on the RH 4.1 merge branch.
 > > 
 > > I thought I would see if there are any comments before I check this in.
 > 
 > one more thing; currently we do not change the versioned gcj subdir when
 > we change the libgcj soversion. At least for distributions like debian
 > and ubuntu that means that we do have file conflicts if we bump the
 > libgcj soversion and keep the gcc version (having packages like libgcj7
 > and libgcj8).

Why?  What exactly causes the problem?

 > Would it make sense to have the gcj subdir be versioned with the
 > libgcj soversion instead of the gcc version?

No.

Andrew.



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