[libannodex-dev] Re: [libcmml-dev] Symbol versioning in libcmml (and probably the rest of the annodex suite)

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>I recommend changing this, then, to add the first element of the SONAME in
>the version script:  modify configure.ac to pull out the first field of
>SHARED_VERSION_INFO (field separator ':') and expand a new variable
>SHARED_VERSION_INFO_MAJOR or something similary, then use that in the
>version script.
>
>I suspect that the other annodex libraries do a similar thing, so copied to
>the main annodex list in case you'd like to do the same there.

Additionally, further reading (Ch15 part 4, and Chapter 19) makes me think
you really want to add a HIDDEN section, at least the same as described in
Ch15 part 2.