It has been a request that multiple libnl versions should be installabe
in parallel.
In order to achieve this, the basename of the library was changed to
libnl-3 which reflects the 3rd generation of libnl APIs. It also means
that release based library versioning is left behind and libtool
versioning is used instead.
Projects using pkgconfig will automatically link against the new library
basename and will not notice a difference.
The SO versioning is based on the glib model:
current := 100 * minor + micro - revision
revision := revision
age := age (number of backwards compatible versions)
- improved stylesheets for both doxygen and asciidoc
- use of xml doxygen layout
- python script to resolve <<foo>> asciidoc references to
<<foo, title>> based on the target caption
- graphics for netlink and netlink error headers
- more link documentation
The core library documentation has been converted to use asciidoc. It
provides better flexibility in creating documentation such as tables
and more powerful formatting rules.
The doxygen based API reference remains and three scripts have been
added to:
- gen-tags.sh: extract tag information from doxygen reference
- tags2dict.sh: generate a name=link dictionary file
- doxygen-link.py: replace all references in the asciidoc documentation
refering to API functions, struct, etc. with a link
into the doxygen API reference.
'make gendoc' continue to generate all documentation.
The following tools are required to generate documentation:
- asciidoc
- mscgen
- asciidoc mscgen plugin
- pygments
- xmlstarlet
Thomas Graf