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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

The problem with a new header though is we will need to add yet another
build flag to kicad that a user will have to set....because we can't
guarantee all platforms will have ngspice > 35 or whateveto look for a new
"version.h"

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 7:04 AM jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Le 03/02/2021 à 11:38, Carsten Schoenert a écrit :
> > Hello Holger,
> >
> > Am 03.02.21 um 11:20 schrieb Holger Vogt:
> >> I remember some time ago I tried to address the libtool versioning, but
> >> I did not understand it, so abandoned it again.
> > libtool isn't really easy, yes, but the more complicated thing is to
> > integrate the things correctly into configure.ac and potential
> > Makefile(s).am.
> >
> > If I'm feeling boring enough I can try to have look this. But ngspice
> > did already cost a lot of my brain in the past. :P
> >
> >> What about adding and distributing alongside of sharedspice.h a version
> >> header file verngspice.h which contains only some version info?
> > That would for sure help for the problem Ian has written about, but it
> > doesn't solves the underlying real problem, a non versioned library.
> >
> > To add such a version string you even don't need to add another header
> > file, there is already sharedspice.h available. It's easy to process
> > this as .h.in file while configure is running to add such a version
> > string. I can try to have a look at this as well.
>
>
> OTOH, a version.h file is not a bad idea (read: for me a very good idea):
>
> at least the name is already a useful comment and it request only a very
> few amount of work.
>
> Many tools use this trick (for instance opencascade, and most of other
> tools we are using in Kicad), and one **big** advantage it works outside
> the libtool stuff.
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
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Mark