When building libcurl as a shared library, the 7.8 release sets a bad version
string.

To build a library with the correct version setup, apply this patch:

--- lib/Makefile.am 2001/05/29 19:17:03 1.22
+++ lib/Makefile.am 2001/06/11 12:30:57
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir)/include

-libcurl_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 2:0:1
+libcurl_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 2:1:0
 # This flag accepts an argument of the form current[:revision[:age]]. So,
 # passing -version-info 3:12:1 sets current to 3, revision to 12, and age to
 # 1.

-- 
     Daniel Stenberg -- curl dude -- http://curl.haxx.se/