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

[Gil Pedersen]

On 07/03/2012, at 15.04, Sean McGovern wrote:

> 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.

How so? On Linux the version is not represented in the .so itself, only through a naming convention. Why does Mach-O need the information encoded otherwise?

>> 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?

Which of my statements you are referring to?

/Gil