sonames for liboctave & co?

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:

| would it be possible to use sonames for octave (and update them
| properly) at each release in octave?
| 
| It would be much easier for me when maintaining shogun (that may wrap
| octave) to ensure that it still works while liboctave already undergoes
| abi/api changes.
| 
| Searching the web I've found a debian bugreport about it (
| http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510579 ) and already a
| request on the octave ml...
| 
| I think it would be rather easy to do (even if you in almost all cases
| have to increase the soname: I've collected instructions when to
| increase the soname here
| http://www.shogun-toolbox.org/doc/soname.html )...

I'm in the process of switching Octave's build system to use automake
and libtool.  After that change is made, I'd consider a patch to set
the soname for the libraries.

jwe