KhronosGroup / KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools
No library versions in soname
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Description
In Unix world it's common for libraries to have version in soname (usually major and minor, major changes when there are backward incompatible ABI changes).
But current sonames for libraries don't have version info:
libSPIRV-Tools-link.so
libSPIRV-Tools-opt.so
libSPIRV-Tools-reduce.so
libSPIRV-Tools-shared.so
libSPIRV-Tools.so
From packaging POV (RPM in my case) .so files are usually symlinks to versioned library files and packaged to -devel (development) packages. Could be nice to see versioned library files/sonames and non-versioned -devel symlinks here too.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the build definitions for libSPIRV-Tools-link.so, libSPIRV-Tools-opt.so, libSPIRV-Tools-reduce.so, libSPIRV-Tools-shared.so, and libSPIRV-Tools.so. Check how their sonames and symlink/install outputs are currently produced, then verify that versioned runtime libraries and non-versioned development symlinks match the intended ABI and RPM packaging layout.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100