From: Lucas De Marchi Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:26:12 +0000 (-0800) Subject: build: add comment with rules for libtool version update X-Git-Tag: v28~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d977b0daf4e75528b90a8398949ab6aaf5ed5160;p=thirdparty%2Fkmod.git build: add comment with rules for libtool version update --- diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index c2fac723..99a69f68 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -44,6 +44,19 @@ SED_PROCESS = \ %.pc: %.pc.in Makefile $(SED_PROCESS) +# Rules for libtool versioning (from https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html) +# 1. Start with version information of ‘0:0:0’ for each libtool library. +# 2. Update the version information only immediately before a public release of +# your software. More frequent updates are unnecessary, and only guarantee that +# the current interface number gets larger faster. +# 3. If the library source code has changed at all since the last update, then +# increment revision (‘c:r:a’ becomes ‘c:r+1:a’). +# 4. If any interfaces have been added, removed, or changed since the last +# update, increment current, and set revision to 0. +# 5. If any interfaces have been added since the last public release, then +# increment age. +# 6. If any interfaces have been removed or changed since the last public +# release, then set age to 0. LIBKMOD_CURRENT=5 LIBKMOD_REVISION=5 LIBKMOD_AGE=3