[gst-devel] Re: [gst-cvs] dlehn gst-plugins: gst-plugins/

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

> > >  dnl when going to/from release please set the nano (fourth number) right !
> > >  dnl releases only do Wall, cvs and prerelease does Werror too
> > > -AS_VERSION(gst-plugins, GST_PLUGINS, 0, 4, 1, 1, GST_ERROR="-Wall", GST_ERROR="-Wall -Werror")
> > > +AS_VERSION(gst-plugins, GST_PLUGINS_VERSION, 0, 4, 1, 1, GST_ERROR="-Wall", GST_ERROR="-Wall -Werror")
> > >  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,$VERSION)
> > >  AS_LIBTOOL(GST_PLUGINS, 0, 0, 0, yes)
> > >  
> 
> Sure,
> 
> The AS_VERSION() macro defines some version stuff based on that second
> parameter, such as FOO_MAJOR, FOO_MINOR, etc.  The AS_LIBTOOL() macro
> expects vars of the form FOO_VERSION_MAJOR, FOO_VERSION_MINOR, etc.  It
> uses these to constuct the value of FOO_LT_LDFLAGS and/or
> FOO_LIBVERSION.  So... you need to pass in FOO_VERSION to AS_VERSION()
> to get things setup properly.  This is how it's done in the core.
> 
> The reason those AS_LIBTOOL() defined vars are needed now is that the
> gstgconf code should be built as a library and not a plugin.  So it
> needs to have versioning info of some sort and might as well use the
> same methodology as the core to version it.
> 
> Seem reasonable?

Yeah.  What I meant to ask was - what is the net effect ? Which things 
will now be different (filenames, libs) than they were before this fix ?

Thomas

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