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["Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, October 8, 2008 10:35, Johan Hake wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 October 2008 10:13:48 DOLFIN wrote:
>> One or more new changesets pushed to the primary dolfin repository.
>> A short summary of the last three changesets is included below.
>>
>> changeset:   4894:a41577e1249de3e4fa0030becdd2df84e0ce376c
>> tag:         tip
>> user:        Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>
>> date:        Wed Oct 08 10:12:55 2008 +0200
>> files:       SConstruct dolfin/SConscript
>> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/ExtendedEnvironment.py
>> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/__init__.py
>> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/boost.py
>> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/cholmod.py
>> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/hypre.py
>> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/numpy.py
>> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/trilinos.py
>> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/umfpack.py
>> description:
>> Now generating versioned shared library libdolfin.so.major.minor.micro
>> with soname libdolfin.so.major and symbolic links libdolfin.so.major and
>> libdolfin.so.
>
> Excuse my ignorance but what is this used for?

I added it mainly because it is considered an error in Debian if a shared
library doesn't specify a soname. You can read about shared libraries with
soname here:

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Library-related_Commands_and_Files#Shared_Libraries
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-toolchain/1998/07/17/0000.html

Johannes

> Johan
>
>>
>>
>> changeset:   4893:b4fc4fdbeff4215391a06566b268aedbc590d781
>> user:        Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>
>> date:        Tue Oct 07 16:09:00 2008 +0200
>> files:       SConstruct dolfin/SConscript dolfin/scons.cfg
>> scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/gmp.py description:
>> Added support for GMP.
>>
>>
>> changeset:   4892:0abe9880de76ea870fdc5628f6c73e46fc837915
>> user:        Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
>> date:        Tue Oct 07 14:20:20 2008 +0200
>> files:       ChangeLog
>> description:
>> Update ChangeLog
>>
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