Re: RPM packaging and library versioning

[Warren Young]

Remi Collet wrote:
> 
> Using -soname, the .so (link) must be provided by mysql++-devel
> sub-package as it is not required to run binaries.

That's sensible.  Thanks for clearing that up for me.

> I've look at bakefile documentation (quite poor on this feature). 

I've contributed several patches to the Bakefile docs, but yes, it still 
needs work.

> There
> are options for "dll" (dllname, libname, version and so_version) but i
> don't know how to use them...). Need more search/try.

Again, I don't think Bakefile is the right place for this.  Bakefile is 
platform-independent, whereas the change you're talking about is not. 
The right place for it is as an autoconf test.  Then you just substitute 
the flags into the generated Makefiles the same way we do for pthreads 
and probably other things I'm forgetting right now.