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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 40436: /trunk-1.6/ /trunk-1.6/debian

From: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:48:18 -0800
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 05:00:57PM +0000, gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=40436
>> User: gerald
>> Date: 2012/01/11 09:00 AM
>>
>> Log:
>>  Have "make-version.pl -v" update the library revision information for
>>  libwireshark and libwiretap. The source code for each changes with every
>>  release and according to the libtool documentation we should increment
>>  the revision number. (wsutil hardly ever changes so we don't update it
>>  here.)
>
> libwiretap_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 1:6:0 -export-symbols wtap.sym @LDFLAGS_SHAREDLIB@
>
> Why not mimic the Wireshark version? so instead of 1:6:0 use 1:6:4 for wireshark
> 1.6.4? Would make it trivial to generate the library version number.

http://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_91.html

Sam