Re: sonames for liboctave & co?

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 18:29 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 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.

Sounds great :-)


Soeren
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