[patch] [java] bump libgcj soname

[Matthias Klose]

On 04/21/2015 04:19 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 04:16:18PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> On 04/21/2015 04:11 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 04:07:13PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>>> bump the libgcj soname on the trunk, as done for every release cycle,
>>>
>>> Is that really needed though these days?
>>> Weren't there basically zero changes to libjava (both libjava and
>>> libjava/classpath) in the last 2 or more years?
>>> The few ones were mostly updating Copyright notices, minor configure
>>> changes, but I really haven't seen anything ABI changing for quite a while.
>>
>> yes, the GCC version is embedded in the GCJ_VERSIONED_LIBDIR
>>
>> which is defined as
>>
>> gcjsubdir=gcj-$gcjversion-$libgcj_soversion
>> dbexecdir='$(toolexeclibdir)/'$gcjsubdir
> 
> But why is that an argument for bumping it?  If both GCC 5 and GCC 6 will
> (likely) provide the same ABI in the library, there is no reason not to use
> the same directory for those.

but currently there are different directories used (gcjversion already changed
on the trunk) and compiled into the library.  Do you mean that gcjsubdir should
be just defined as gcj?

Matthias