[GiNaC-devel] Please revert 29c464d3f387426bdb5ecf9c262fc2f9f2600a70

[Jens Vollinga]

Hi,

Alexei Sheplyakov schrieb:
> Please revert the second patch. First of all, there's nothing wrong with
> current versioning scheme. Secondly, changing SONAME in that way breaks
> every binary linked with libginac (i.e. binary linked with GiNaC 1.4.3
> won't work any more after upgrade to 1.4.4). Since we maintain binary
> compatibility in stable releases, changes like this are inacceptable (that
> is, even if the patch in question were correct).

okay, thanks! I skimmed to quickly through the libtool manual and only 
read the part that supports the elimination of -release ...

> The thing is: dlopen() is in libc on OpenBSD, so there's no need to link
> with -ldl. I've changed  GINAC_EXCOMPILER m4 macro to check for dlopen()
> in libdl and libc (see commit 375a7aa1f13fa6061c278eb2c2447fd91521b45d
> in my repository).

Since a cherry-pick failed I applied the changes by hand. Hope it works.

Regards,
Jens