Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1

Matthias Klose doko@ubuntu.com
Thu Jun 23 05:20:00 GMT 2016


On 23.06.2016 05:41, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 02:36:09PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> We should correct sonames:
>>>
>>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20049
>>
>> What exactly is wrong with sonames?  If you build with
>> development=true you get the date included in the soname, if not, you
>> don't.  That seems good to me.
>>
> 
> It is fine for master, but not for release branch. On 2.26 branch,  I got
> 
> libbfd-2.26.0.20160614.so  libbfd.so                      libopcodes.la
> libbfd.a                   libopcodes-2.26.0.20160614.so  libopcodes.so
> libbfd.la                  libopcodes.a
> 
> On release branch, we should change soname only when ABI is changed.

we don't do that by default, just the 2.26 release was made in development mode.
 I don't mind if the soname changes to 2.26.1 for a point release.  Plus in the
past distributions were also reminded to use their own soname for distro builds.

Matthias



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