On 04/06/2011 05:41 PM, Russ Rew wrote:
> Andrey,
>
>
>> But there are two changed constants in C interface: NC_WRITE (from 0x1
>> to 0x0001) and NC_NOCLOBBER (from 0x4 to 0x0004) used by ncopen and
>> nccreate functions. So, the soname has been bumped:
>>
>> 4.1.1/lib> readelf -Wa libnetcdf.so.4.0.0|grep SONAME
>> 0x0000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libnetcdf.so.4]
>>
>> 4.1.2/lib> readelf -Wa libnetcdf.so.7.0.1|grep SONAME
>> 0x0000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libnetcdf.so.7]
>>
> How are those "changed constants"? "0x1" and "0x0001" are just
> different representations of the same integer constant 1. Similarly
> with "0x4" and "0x0004" for an integer 4. Changes in syntax for an
> integer constant should not result in claims of an incompatible
> interface or result in a new soname. This looks like another false
> positive to me.
>
> --Russ
>
>
You are right. It is a false positive too. The only reason for the
version bump of C library I see for now is the very long list of
improvements and bug-fixes between 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 in the change-log [1].
[1]
http://linuxtesting.org/upstream-tracker/changelogs/netcdf/4.1.2/changelog.html
--
Andrey Ponomarenko
Department for Operating Systems at ISPRAS
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