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In a long-ago discussion on whether GDB should use a shared BFD, Ian Taylor said: > Correct: there are no current plans to use -release when building a > BFD shared library. > > I believe the correct solution for BFD is to rename the shared library > based on the BFD version number. However, this is not currently > implemented. Why is including the BFD version in the shared library name preferable to using -release?