Re: ncurses, libtool, and os x

[Chris Zubrzycki]

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On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 12:00  PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
>
> > > You could try using --with-shlib-version
> >
> > Well, actuaclly on os x it's named libncurses.5.0.3.dylib, but the
> > version and compat versions are 6.x only if built with libtool. The
>
> so libtool makes it
>         libncurses.6.1.4.dylib
> or
>         libncurses.6.0.4.dylib
no, the file names stay exactly the same, the problem is libtool adds 1 
to whatever version is passed to it (only in darwin). I was thinking 
would it be a good idea for ncurses to decrease the version passed to 
libtool by 1 if built in darwin?

> so I see - the rules I've got for darwin use $(NCURSES_MAJOR) and
> $(NCURSES_MINOR) rather than $(ABI_VERSION).  I think I have enough
> information to be able to make libtool do the expected thing on my next
> patch -- I'll add that to my to-do list.
>
> Note that in general it's not possible to make the versions match up,
> since libtool uses its own convention for version numbers.

i thought a host-specific case statement could take care of this? but 
atm the main problem i see is when the ncurses abi is increased to 6. 
then some programs will be looking for slightly different ncurses that 
have the same abi, no?

- -chris zubrzycki
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