[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#510579: octave3.0: please put runtime libraries in /usr/lib, not /usr/lib/octave-VERSION

[Cédric Boutillier]

Hi,

I found this bug, trying to package for myself octave-ruby [0], an interface 
between Octave and Ruby.
I do not know if what I will say makes much sense, but is it possible to make 
the octave3.0 package send a file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/octave.conf containing

	/usr/lib/octave-x.y.z/

so that programs linked against liboctinterp.so, liboctave.so  and libcruft.so 
can find these libraries at runtime?

I think it is what r-base-core is doing.

Best,

Cedric

[0] http://octave-ruby.rubyforge.org/