[Pkg-octave-devel] Bugs in octave2.1

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 02:10:14PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  2-Jan-2009, Thomas Weber wrote:
> 
> | I'm reluctant about #367165. Putting the libraries into /usr/lib means
> | we need a SONAME. Octave doesn't version the SONAME currently. I've
> | looked into this quite some time ago, but we would need to introduce
> | both automake and libtool into Octave. That would be a huge patch,
> | touching about every Makefile.
> 
> Why would we have to use automake and libtool to handle SONAME?

Uh, I thought libtool is the canonical way to handle SONAMEs with
autoconf? 

automake came into the game as the libtool manual relies heavily on it.