No soname on generated shared lib - Fedora rpm package

[mrceresa]

Hello everybody,
first of all thanks a lot for dcmtk which is a very impressive software.

I'm one of the package mantainer of Fedora and I'm trying to package dcmtk as an rpm. You can see the review progress here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=dcmtk

I used the following patch on the original source tree:

http://mrceresa.fedorapeople.org/dcmtk- ... ared.patch

to generate the shared libs. This is a requisite for packaging the software into Fedora. I found that the generated libs lack a proper soname.

I'd like to fix it, but I have to say that I know very little of autoconf (I use mainly cmake) and I don't know the proper spell to add the version information.

I tried putting:

LDFLAGS=-version-info 3:5:4

into config/Makefile.def.in
and then reconfiguring, but it didn't work.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks and regards,

Mario

[Jörg Riesmeier]

I'm also not an expert on this kind of things but maybe the following reference helps: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/GCC-HOWTO.html (search for "soname").