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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Cédric Boutillier <cedric.boutillier at gmail.com> [2009-03-16 14:53]:

> 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?

This sounds like a good idea.  Does it really fix your packaging problem
with octave-ruby?

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

Yes, it is.

-- 
Rafael