From 4090672af430e6add8a7d16402dd8db197c65b28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Jacoutot Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:41:36 +0000 Subject: - since we are in control of shared library versions, advise people to use "0.0" for SHARED_LIBS version when importing a new port ok espie@ --- share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'share/man/man5') diff --git a/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 b/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 index 9b0de1d5612..aaca4352069 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: bsd.port.mk.5,v 1.208 2008/01/12 16:04:35 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: bsd.port.mk.5,v 1.209 2008/03/24 14:41:35 ajacoutot Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Marc Espie .\" @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 12 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 24 2008 $ .Dt BSD.PORT.MK 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1597,6 +1597,8 @@ ports system must have control over shared library versions because of global changes that may require bumping the major version of every shared library in the system, or simply because the third party programmers do not understand the rules for shared library versions, thus breaking the update mechanism. +For that reason it is advised to set libversion to 0.0 when first importing a +port. .Pp Porters of software using libtool should also set .Ev USE_LIBTOOL -- cgit v1.2.3