[x264-devel] [PATCH 1/2] macosx: version the libraries

[Sean McGovern]

On 3/7/12, Gil Pedersen <gil at cmi.aau.dk> wrote:
> What is the rationale behind this change?

Versioning parity between the ELF and Mach-O versions of the library.

>
> It will require a recompile of anything that links against libx264 and cause
> incompatible programs to crash when started. I don't see any benefits to the
> change when libx264 already has a link time check that will crash the
> calling app when x264_encoder_open() is called.

Isn't this also true when the ELF soname changes?

-- Sean McG.