Re: SONAME clarification

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Feb-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

| Ok, here's a try for a changeset
| 
| It separates cygwin and mingw targets in the switch/case chain, and adds 
| the appropriate variables for the mingw target.
| The reasons I vote for separation of targets are again:
|   *) different naming scheme for libraries
|   *) compiled versions of mkoctfile and octave-config for the mingw target
|   *) possible future addition of support for shared libgcc/libstdc++ for 
| mingw target
| 
| These distinctions would otherwise lead to nested if-then-else checks 
| which are IMO harder to read and maintain.

OK.

I applied the patch.

Is it possible for you to use Mercurial and send changsets instead of
plain diffs?

In the future, please include ChangeLog entries with your changesets
if you want credit for the changes you submit.

Thanks,

jwe