[Development] Android missing SONAME in lib's causes

[BogDan]

>>  > Bogdan, how does https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,61330 break 
> the
>>  > qt creator plugin?
>> 
>>  Hi,
>> 
>>  It breaks it because QTC plugin expects that .so libs to end with 
> ".so" and
>>  we need to synchronize the new QTC with Qt 5.2 release.
> 
> I don't understand. 
> 
> My patch does not change anything in the names of libraries. It only changes 
> the SONAME embedded in the library.
> 

HUH ?!?!
Doesn't it change the SONAME to libQt5XXXX.so.5.1 instead libXXXX.so ?

Let me try it one more time and I'll come back to you ! :)

> Please clarify.
> 
>>  Anyway QTC plugin
>>  is the last thing that I'm worry about, probably it can be fixed in a 
> few
>>  hours/days. The major problem that I see is that we need to use symlinks
>>  which for Android doesn't help at all,
> 
> I don't understand. My patch doesn't have anything to do with symlinks.
> 
>>  IMHO the questions are: 
>> 
>>  - Do we *really* need this change?
> 
> It appears so.
> 
>>  - It's worth to break a lot of things to have this change?
> 
> I don't understand the breakage scenarios.
> 
>>  - Isn't easier to fix cmake build system instead?
> 
> I'm not convinced cmake is broken.
> 
>> 
>>  Personally I don't think we need it and (for sure) I don't think it 
> worth
>>  the trouble. On the other hand, if on this list everyone else thinks that
>>  I'm wrong and you'll decide to submit the patch, I'll obey and 
> I'll start
>>  to think how to handle this change in Ministro. 
> 
> Maybe you just need to read the patch again?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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