From: ntzrmtthihu777@... Date: 2017-03-10T04:04:33+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:79992] [Ruby trunk Misc#13296] building ruby for windows always puts the version number into the ruby library, resulting in redundancy when using --with-soname Issue #13296 has been updated by Marty Plummer. Shyouhei Urabe wrote: > Isn't this something normal? I don't have MinGW so platform-specific situation is not clear to me but, at least GNU libtool generates similar Makefiles so I think there are lots of other libraries who install like us. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Release-numbers.html In the above example you still can't install multiple version of the same library for linux due to the libbfd.so symlink. Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote: > Marty Plummer wrote: > > It is not. Its a windows stupidity issue, which has to be worked around. Simply drop the version from the library name and packagers/builders can decide for themselves what is best to be done with it. > > It's necessary to avoid conflict across versions. > You mean ALL packagers/builders MUST ALWAYS specify it? No. Only distros that package multiple versions of ruby (rare [especially for mingw, which is rarer]) at the same time will be affected, and they already ALWAYS specify it in order to prevent library and executable conflicts (if you don't set --with-soname you will always end up with 'libruby.so' regardless of the full version of the library, so --with-soname is required to prevent this conflict) ---------------------------------------- Misc #13296: building ruby for windows always puts the version number into the ruby library, resulting in redundancy when using --with-soname https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13296#change-63413 * Author: Marty Plummer * Status: Rejected * Priority: Normal * Assignee: ---------------------------------------- Under gentoo the dev-lang/ruby-2.4.0.ebuild explicitly sets --program-suffix and --with-soname in order to facilitate multiple ruby version installations at the same time. Using crossdev for the x86_64-w64-mingw32 target, ruby's build system will set the final ruby libraries name to something like x64-msvcrt-${soname}${ver} which results in a final name of libx64-msvcrt-ruby24240.dll.a and so on. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: