[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add versioning information to dlls

[Ramiro Polla]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:48:29AM -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 01:21:15PM -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 03:37:53PM -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>>>>>>   
>>>>>> I'm out of bright ideas right now.  Let's wait for Mans to return from
>>>>>> LinuxTag and have a look.  In the meantime, could you please post the
>>>>>> latest incarnation of your patch so that we have a basis to work with?
>>>>>>       
>>>>> Here you go.
>>>> Here's the relevant IRC discussion between me and Mans on the subject:
>>>>
>>>> 00:36 <@DonDiego> mru: did you see that windows rc thing?
>>>> 00:37 <@mru> I saw it, didn't look at it
>>>> 00:37 <@mru> in detail
>>>> 00:37 <@mru> this is the wrong solution
>>>> 00:37 <@mru> what we should do is
>>>> 00:37 <@mru> 1. fix version.h creation to work when building in subdirs
>>>> 00:38 <@DonDiego> yes
>>>> 00:38 <@mru> 2. add a %.o: %.rc rule
>>>> 00:38 <@mru> 3. add a %.rc: whatever rule
>>>> 00:38 <@mru> perhaps with a shell script helper
>>>> 00:39 <@DonDiego> we can start with 1.
>>>> 00:39 <@DonDiego> IIUC this is a real bug anyway
>>>> 00:39 <@mru> yes, that's why I gave it that number
>>>>
>>>> That does indeed sound like a plan.
>>> Which part is incorrect?
>> We need separate patches.  The first step would be to send us one that
>> implements version.h creation when running make from a subdirectory.
>> This is not entirely trivial, if you want to avoid having one version.h
>> file per subdirectory.  Try having configure run version.sh at the end
>> so that version.h already exists when make is run, even from a
>> subdirectory.
> 
> That's not a good idea, since the version can change without configure
> being run.

Currently the build system doesn't reflect version changes on shared 
libraries and pc files. We know you like neither of them, but do you 
plan on fixing this somehow?