Bug#486376: [Ecls-list] Bug#486376: Bug#486376: ecl: /usr/lib/libecl.so doesn't provide a SONAME

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
>> That is not something ECL has to provide. It is more a configuration
>> option that operating systems may provide.
>
> Sorry, I'm not a skilled programmed, but I don't understand why this is
> not ECL task: ECL provides the libecl.so library, so who else should
> provide its SONAME?

The SONAME is a basically a linker option and can be passed to ECL as
a configuration flag during the build process. It is not our task as
developers of ECL to impose a certain numbering scheme or link flags
on the main source distribution, but rather the package maintainer to
set it based on their own criteria or distribution standards. At least
this is how I have seen that done for other packages, including
Debian's ones (http://packages.debian.org/etch/libgc1c2) and that is
what I meant by the text above.

Juanjo

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