Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: fix soname info for 19.11 compatiblity

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 10:26 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> The soname for each stable ABI version should be just the ABI version
> major
> number without the minor number. Unfortunately both major and minor
> were
> used causing version 20.1 to be incompatible with 20.0.
> 
> This patch fixes the issue by switching from 2-part to 3-part ABI
> version
> numbers so that we can keep 20.0 as soname and using the final digits
> to
> identify the 20.x releases which are ABI compatible. This requires
> changes
> to both make and meson builds to handle the three-digit version and
> shrink
> it to 2-digit for soname.
> 
> Fixes: cba806e07d6f ("build: change ABI versioning to global")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <
> thomas@monjalon.net
> >
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <
> bruce.richardson@intel.com
> >
> ---
> 
> This patch contains an alternative fix to that implied by the
> previous patches:
> http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/63726/
> 
> http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/63728/
> 
> 
> ---
>  ABI_VERSION         | 2 +-
>  drivers/meson.build | 4 ++--
>  lib/meson.build     | 4 ++--
>  mk/rte.lib.mk       | 5 ++++-
>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>

Thank you! I've set a reminder in my calendar for September to revert
it :-)

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi