Re: [Ayttm-commits] CVS: ayttm/modules/icq-toc Makefile.am,1.1.1.1,1.2

[Philip S Tellis]

Sometime on Jan 13, Colin Leroy assembled some asciibets to say:

> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:26:00 -0500 "Philip S Tellis
> <address@hidden>" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Philip,
> 
> > added -avoid-version to module Makefiles
> 
> What is it for ?

well, libtool modules have version numbers attached to them.  so you 
get libxxx.so, libxxx.so.0, libxxx.so.0.0.0

of all these, we only require libxxx.so.  The other two are just 
symlinks to the first.

It would make sense if we were actually using versioning - ie, we could 
say that this version of yattm can only use libraries with api versions 
compatible with x.0.0, but we're not, so we don't need it.

-avoid-version makes sure that only the .so is made and the others are 
not.  It reduces clutter in our modules directory, and makes plugin 
scanning a little faster.

Philip