On Monday 15 December 2003 05:34 pm, Nick Hudson wrote:
> On Monday 15 December 2003 9:32 pm, Adam C. Migus wrote:
> [...]
>
> > It appears as others have pointed out that the fix is not so simple
> > as the patch I submitted and my apologies for assuming so.  Again
> > as others have pointed out it seems like this might in fact, be a
> > libtool issue.
> >
> > Has anything else been done with this issue since?  Is there a
> > libtool person out there who might shed some light on the
> > situation?
>
> pkgsrc libtool is patched to make all the (supported) platforms use
> the same numbering scheme. A package that doesn't define
> LIBTOOL_OVERRIDE appropriately would mean that the default libtool
> numbering would be used.
>
> HTH,
> Nick

So I guess it's a bug in libtool as the package doesn't declare 
LIBTOOL_OVERRIDE but does generate different version numbers; 5.5 for 
NetBSD, 5.0.5 for Linux and  5.0.5 on Solaris are known.

Adam