Set SONAME in cmake like autotools based buildsystem would do.
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2757cfe..d30a71b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
project(log4cxx VERSION ${log4cxx_VER} LANGUAGES CXX)
include(CTest)
+# define the SO Version of the library. Version of the log4cxx project is subtly different than the version of the library
+# (at least in the past it was project vesion: 0.a.b.c and the library so vesion a.b.c.0
+set(LIBLOG4CXX_LIB_VERSION ${log4cxx_VERSION_MINOR}.${log4cxx_VERSION_PATCH}.${log4cxx_VERSION_TWEAK})
+set(LIBLOG4CXX_LIB_SOVERSION ${log4cxx_VERSION_MINOR})
+
# FindAPR and FindAPR-util are not provided by APR and APR-Util so source them locally
list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/src/cmake")
diff --git a/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index 8f7d609..213ece5 100644
--- a/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -165,6 +165,6 @@
zipcompressaction.cpp
)
set_target_properties(log4cxx PROPERTIES
- VERSION ${log4cxx_VERSION_MAJOR}.${log4cxx_VERSION_MINOR}.${log4cxx_VERSION_PATCH}
- SOVERSION ${log4cxx_VERSION_MAJOR}
+ VERSION ${LIBLOG4CXX_LIB_VERSION}
+ SOVERSION ${LIBLOG4CXX_LIB_SOVERSION}
)
