Use standard shared library versioning. Index: gettext-tools/src/Makefile.in --- gettext-tools/src/Makefile.in.orig +++ gettext-tools/src/Makefile.in @@ -3965,7 +3965,7 @@ cldr_plurals_LDADD = libgettextsrc.la $(LDADD) # Need @LTLIBINTL@ because many source files use gettext(). # Need @LTLIBICONV@ because po-charset.c, po-lex.c, msgl-iconv.c, write-po.c # use iconv(). -libgettextsrc_la_LDFLAGS = -release @VERSION@ \ +libgettextsrc_la_LDFLAGS = \ ../gnulib-lib/libgettextlib.la $(LTLIBUNISTRING) \ $(LT_LIBTEXTSTYLE) @LTLIBINTL@ @LTLIBICONV@ -lc -no-undefined \ $(am__append_3) $(am__append_5) $(am__append_7)