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

Laatz, Kevin kevin.laatz at intel.com
Mon Dec 16 12:21:50 CET 2019


On 12/12/2019 11:58, 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>
> ---

Patch also tested with new Meson ABI checks (see 
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=7830)

Tested-by: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz at intel.com>




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