Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: fix soname info for 19.11 compatiblity

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

11/12/2019 12:04, Luca Boccassi:
> On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 10:26 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > The soname for each stable ABI version should be just the ABI version
> > major
> > number without the minor number. Unfortunately both major and minor
> > were
> > used causing version 20.1 to be incompatible with 20.0.
> > 
> > This patch fixes the issue by switching from 2-part to 3-part ABI
> > version
> > numbers so that we can keep 20.0 as soname and using the final digits
> > to
> > identify the 20.x releases which are ABI compatible. This requires
> > changes
> > to both make and meson builds to handle the three-digit version and
> > shrink
> > it to 2-digit for soname.
> > 
> > Fixes: cba806e07d6f ("build: change ABI versioning to global")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <
> > thomas@monjalon.net
> > >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <
> > bruce.richardson@intel.com
> > >
> > ---
> > 
> > This patch contains an alternative fix to that implied by the
> > previous patches:
> > http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/63726/
> > 
> > http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/63728/
> > 
> > 
> > ---
> >  ABI_VERSION         | 2 +-
> >  drivers/meson.build | 4 ++--
> >  lib/meson.build     | 4 ++--
> >  mk/rte.lib.mk       | 5 ++++-
> >  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> 
> Thank you! I've set a reminder in my calendar for September to revert
> it :-)

I don't think we need to revert it.
The ABI version will have only 2 numbers (21.0).
In makefile there is no change.
What needs to be changed in meson?