Re: gmp version 4.1 builds 3.3?

[Kevin Ryde]

Phil Howard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> That's going to lead to a lot of confusion.  It already has.  How are
> people going to know which version to download?  Can you guarantee
> that the source version and the binary version won't ever collide?
> Why not put a version-to-version map on the web site?

The soname is only an artifact of SVR4 shared libraries, in general it
won't bare any relation to the package version number.  On other
systems the conventions are different, for instance gmp 4.1 installs
libgmp.sl.6 on hpux.

This all comes out of the libtool -version-info, we express our
interface compatibility and it does the rest.  No-one could claim any
of this is terribly pretty, but it does its job.