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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH] python: replace hardcoding of SONAME version\r
+Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 08:31:14 +0100\r
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+Failing to update this string in globals.py causes failures when the\r
+SONAME changes. In order to hopefully reduce the number of such\r
+errors, automate the process of setting the SONAME in the python\r
+bindings.\r
+---\r
+ Makefile.local | 4 +++-\r
+ bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py | 5 +++--\r
+ bindings/python/notmuch/version.py | 1 +\r
+ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+After hitting the mismatch again while working on the count API, I\r
+decided to try to fix it.\r
+\r
+diff --git a/Makefile.local b/Makefile.local\r
+index 81ee347..6d54742 100644\r
+--- a/Makefile.local\r
++++ b/Makefile.local\r
+@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ dist: $(TAR_FILE)\r
+ .PHONY: update-versions\r
+ \r
+ update-versions:\r
+- sed -i "s/^__VERSION__[[:blank:]]*=.*$$/__VERSION__ = \'${VERSION}\'/" $(PV_FILE)\r
++ sed -i -e "s/^__VERSION__[[:blank:]]*=.*$$/__VERSION__ = \'${VERSION}\'/" \\r
++ -e "s/^SOVERSION[[:blank:]]*=.*$$/SOVERSION = \'${LIBNOTMUCH_VERSION_MAJOR}\'/" \\r
++ ${PV_FILE}\r
+ \r
+ # We invoke make recursively only to force ordering of our phony\r
+ # targets in the case of parallel invocation of make (-j).\r
+diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py\r
+index 24b25d3..4c49d51 100644\r
+--- a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py\r
++++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py\r
+@@ -18,15 +18,16 @@ Copyright 2010 Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>\r
+ """\r
+ \r
+ from ctypes import CDLL, Structure, POINTER\r
++from version import SOVERSION\r
+ \r
+ #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r
+ #package-global instance of the notmuch library\r
+ try:\r
+ from os import uname\r
+ if uname()[0] == 'Darwin':\r
+- nmlib = CDLL("libnotmuch.4.dylib")\r
++ nmlib = CDLL("libnotmuch.{0:s}.dylib".format(SOVERSION))\r
+ else:\r
+- nmlib = CDLL("libnotmuch.so.4")\r
++ nmlib = CDLL("libnotmuch.so.{0:s}".format(SOVERSION))\r
+ except:\r
+ raise ImportError("Could not find shared 'notmuch' library.")\r
+ \r
+diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/version.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/version.py\r
+index f719fdf..35744d3 100644\r
+--- a/bindings/python/notmuch/version.py\r
++++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/version.py\r
+@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@\r
+ # this file should be kept in sync with ../../../version\r
+ __VERSION__ = '0.19'\r
++SOVERSION = '4'\r
+-- \r
+2.1.4\r
+\r