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

John W. Eaton jwe at jweaton.org
Fri Jan 2 19:10:14 UTC 2009


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?

jwe



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