Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bugs in octave2.1
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.
>From libtool's manual:
"If you want to use libtool in a regular Makefile (or Makefile.in), you
are on your own."
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Makefile-rules
Just to get this clear, I'd love to have versioned SONAMEs with Octave,
it would make transitions a lot easier. But I simply don't have the
knowledge to go that deep into Octave's build process.
Thomas
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