Re: [boost] Howto set SONAME (DLLVERSION)?

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-11 11:15:53

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks, guys - but does anyone know the answer to my original question?  How
>>do I use bjam and specify SONAME?  I see it is called DLLVERSION in some
>>jam files, but I don't know how to set it.  I tried bjam -sDLLVERSION=xxx.
> 
> 
> As others mentioned, you really shouldn't as they are it's not 
> guaranteed or tested to be binary compatible, and we specifically 
> changed the naming because of that.

I think part of the confusion stems from a long tradition of using
name-x.y.z in a way that only increasing x to x + 1 will indicate ABI
incompatibility.

Thus, from a packager's point of view (as opposed to project manager's)
version 33.1 should never exist, it should be called 34 instead.
(I have left out the initial '1.' here, as that seems to be a relict
anyways.)

Regards,
                Stefan