* Dave Plater (davejplater@gmail.com) [20110206 22:55]:
The configure.ac isn't that big, I've been reading and comparing with the libtool website and I suspect the developer did something in good faith but used the wrong macro.
Found it! ;-) Something in that way. The error is that configure.ac has: LT_RELEASE=$MJPEG_MAJOR_VERSION.$MJPEG_MINOR_VERSION LT_CURRENT=$MJPEG_MICRO_VERSION LT_REVISION=$MJPEG_MICRO_VERSION LT_AGE=$MJPEG_MICRO_VERSION While initializing LT_RELEASE works this way, the initialisation of the other variables does not work and they all get initialised to '0' as you can see in the generated Makefile. But even if all worked the error is in using all the variables (and IMO in using the variables at all). The author(s) should decide on which way to version the libraries. Either make the libraries binary incompatible and use '-release' in AM_LDFLAGS (or set LT_RELEASE) or decide to care for binary compatibility and follow libtools versioning scheme documented in '(libtool.info.gz)Libtool versioning'. That would mean that the libraries have versions differing from the main package but would IMNSHO be the best solution. I'm trying to come up with a patch that does "The Right Thing"(tm) ;-) Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org