bugGNU gettext - Bugs: bug #56305, Incompatible DLL name

 
 

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bug #56305: Incompatible DLL name

Submitter:  Ken Takata <k_takata>
Submitted:  Sat 11 May 2019 01:56:25 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Build Severity:  4 - Important
Item Group:  None Status:  Fix Released
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  haible
Open/Closed:  Closed

Sun 12 May 2019 03:49:57 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks a lot for this report.
I am making a 0.20.1 release with this problem fixed.

Bruno Haible <haible>
Group administrator
Sat 11 May 2019 01:56:25 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

When I built gettext 0.19.8.1 on MinGW, the DLL name of libintl
was libintl-8.dll.
But now I build gettext 0.20, the name becomes libintl-7.dll.
The interface number was decremented from 8 to 7, so gettext 0.20
is not binary compatible with 0.19.8.1 or before.
(I think that the same thing occurs in linux, etc.)

If gettext 0.20's API is compatible with 0.19, the file name
should keep libintl-8.dll. Otherwise it should be libintl-9.dll,
not libintl-7.dll.

This is caused by the -version-info option for Libtool set in
gettext-tools/intl/Makefile.
In 0.19.8.1, it was -version-info 9:5:1, but in 0.20, it is
changed to -version-info 9:6:2.
To keep the binary compatibility, -version-info should be
9:6:1, 10:0:2 or something. If the AGE is incremented, the
CURRENT should be also incremented.

cf. https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html

Ken Takata <k_takata>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2023-01-04 haible StatusFixed Fix Released
    2019-05-12 haible Severity3 - Normal 4 - Important
        StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone haible
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed

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