[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] build: fix soname info for 19.11 compatiblity

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 12/12/2019 11:58 AM, 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.
> 
> The final fix needed in this patch is to adjust the library version number
> for the ethtool example library, which needs to be upped to 2-digits, as
> external libraries using the DPDK build system also use the logic in this
> file.
> 
> Fixes: cba806e07d6f ("build: change ABI versioning to global")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>