[Scons-dev] Issue 2869 - Versioned shared libraries

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Chris BeHanna <chris at behanna.org> wrote:


> On Oct 25, 2012, at 19:33 , William Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>

> wrote:

>

> > All,

> > On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Chris BeHanna <chris at behanna.org> wrote:

> >

> >> On Oct 25, 2012, at 15:07 , "Managan, Rob" <managan1 at llnl.gov> wrote:

> >>

> >>> Hi Chris,

> >>>

> >>> Thanks for the info. Sounds like I should have the Install function

> check

> >>> that the version numbers match. In the use case where Install does not

> >>> know what the version number is then I will believe the one in the

> library

> >>> name!

> >>>

> >>> Of course, in the example from Eric Raymond on OSX there is only one

> >>> symlink and the version number is located differently.

> >>

> >>      Yes, it's very, very different on OS X.  OS X uses "Mach-O" format

> rather than ELF, and spells ".so" as ".dylib", plus it reverses the order

> of the version number and the file type suffix:

> >>

> >>      libcurl.so.4 => libcurl.4.dylib

> >>

> >> Mach-O also uses a "compatibility version" that is distinct from the

> version that appears in the filename.  :-/

> >

> > Does the implementation work with both linux and OSX?

>

>         If I can find time, I'll test it soon--I have Linux and OS X

> available. I do not have a current version of MSVC to test on Windows,

> though.

>


I can also run tests on Windows, Linux (RH and Ubuntu) and OSX (10.7,
10.8).  Just point me to a repo with the test cases.

-- 
Gary
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