Re: [fluid-dev] SONAME Bump?

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Saturday 06 August 2011, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 02:42:59PM +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> > The auto-tools based build system of FluidSynth is deprecated, and
> > was using libtool. The new CMake based build system does not use
> > libtool.
> 
> That's unfortunate. Consider using libtool. This level of shared
> library manipulation is annoyingly non-portable, and implementing
> support for every platform is tiresome. libtool exists to solve this
> problem, so doing it yourself is just "rewriting libtool".
> 
> (If you only want to support glibc-elf, it's easy, but I don't think
> that's relevant here)

We have already seen libtool doing a poor job with FluidSynth in Mac OSX.

Regards
Pedro