How to use PROPERTIES VERSION and SOVERSION?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 11 April 2008 13:28:07 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > What leaves me puzzled is that with cmake 2.4.7 for
> > 	set_target_properties( mylibname PROPERTIES VERSION 6.1 SOVERSION 5 )
> > I get
> > 	libmylibname.so -> libmylibname.so.5*
> > 	/home/koder/System/kde-devel/lib/libmylibname.so.5 ->
> > libmylibname.so.6.1*
> > /home/koder/System/kde-devel/lib/libmylibname.so.6.1*
> > Is this really what one wants?
>
> Well, depends. If your working on version 6.1 of your libary, but you
> changed the binary interface only 5 times until now it makes perfect
> sense. That said it is a quite unusual pattern I think.

The glibc style would be more appropriate here:

$ ls -l /lib/libc*so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1319092 2008-03-10 08:10 /lib/libc-2.7.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 2008-03-12 13:30 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.7.so*


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