How to use PROPERTIES VERSION and SOVERSION?

[Thiago Macieira]

Dirk Mueller wrote:
>On Friday 11 April 2008, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> > Yet GENERIC_LIB_SOVERSION is just set to "4". I miss something,
>> > obviously.
>>
>> ELF doesn't support that. It should support two numbers: the minimum
>> version and the current. That is, kdelibs 4.1 is backwards compatible
>> with 4.0; Qt 4.4 is backwards compatible with 4.0 as well (including
>> all in-between).
>
>Of course it does support that. It is called symbol versioning. It is
> quite a lot of manual maintenance overhead, and quite difficult to do
> for C++ (because it is hard to predict the mangled name). You'd need a
> good tool for that. I don't know one.

It gets increasingly difficult when dealing with virtual tables and the 
sort. To the point that symbol versioning in C++ is impossible to use.

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