Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751808AbaDAM4L (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:56:11 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.219.48]:54613 "EHLO mail-oa0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751765AbaDAM4J (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:56:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:56:08 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: nfXZ7QBUMn0XvWJZxhAx_GGmf8M Message-ID: Subject: liblockdep soname versioning From: Josh Boyer To: Sasha Levin Cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sasha, We've had a request [1] to package up liblockdep in Fedora. Looking things over, I noticed the library isn't actually versioned at all and instead just builds a plain .so file. That's likely fine during development of it, but if distros are to ship it for broader use then it would be a good idea to specify the soname and use a versioned .so. The makefile already has LIBLOCKDEP_VERSION defined. Would it be possible to use this as the soname and version number? Then liblockdep.so could be the normal symlink to the versioned .so (liblockdep.so.0.0.1 in this case). Thanks. josh [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082763 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/