Allow soname to be an arbitrary string and fix symlink generation.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/build.py b/mesonbuild/build.py
index 98f05c2..58a8433 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/build.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/build.py
@@ -1070,12 +1070,10 @@ class SharedLibrary(BuildTarget):
                 self.soversion = str(self.soversion)
             if not isinstance(self.soversion, str):
                 raise InvalidArguments('Shared library soversion is not a string or integer.')
-            try:
-                int(self.soversion)
-            except ValueError:
-                raise InvalidArguments('Shared library soversion must be a valid integer')
         elif self.ltversion:
             # library version is defined, get the soversion from that
+            # We replicate what Autotools does here and take the first
+            # number of the version by default.
             self.soversion = self.ltversion.split('.')[0]
         # Visual Studio module-definitions file
         if 'vs_module_defs' in kwargs: