[boost] Re: Boost 1.32.0 FreeBSD port ready -- please review patches

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-08 15:24:08

Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> The number on a shared lib most often signifies the API/ABI version.
> That is ortogonal to the version of the lib itself.

Not for Boost. For Boost the version is the API version.

> This warning is given in the documentation for libtool (and I know
> that boost does not use libtool):
> 
>    *_Never_* try to set the interface numbers so that they correspond
>    to the release number of your package.  This is an abuse that only
>    fosters misunderstanding of the purpose of library versions.

So to match the API/ABI version should be set to the minor version of 
Boost as it's not likely that Boost will ever have anything other than 1 
as the major version. Hence the library names would be for 1.32.0:

        libboost*.so.32.0

And if there was a 1.32.1:

        libboost*.so.32.1

That would seem to satisfy the FreeBSD and Linux requirements.

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