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[Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 10:41:54 Johannes Ring wrote:
> 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#Shar
>ed_Libraries
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-toolchain/1998/07/17/0000.html

Thanks! It was informative! 

Johan