On Thursday 27 September 2007 12:23:23 jpff wrote:
> I have applied the patch -- can you give me a quick statement of what
> it does?  I have been away for over 2 weeks and am feeling very confused
> ==John ffitch

It adds a versioned SONAME to libcsnd when built under linux. This is useful 
because then when a new version of csound breaks the API/ABI, then old 
applications linking to the old libcsnd can coexist with the new one. Until 
now, libcsnd was installed as /usr/lib/libcsnd.so. Now it is installed 
as /usr/lib/libcsnd.so.5.1. What is missing in the patch (and I don't know 
how to do it), is a way to install a symlink libcsnd.so that points to 
libcsnd.so.5.1.[1] This symlink is needed when building a new application, 
but not to run the application. The advantage is that if I create a program 
now, and sometime in the future csound ships a libcsnd.so.5.2 (because it 
broke the ABI), both libraries can coexist, and thus I don't need to 
recompile my program.


[1] The symlink is created at build time, but not installed.

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	Felipe Sateler