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Re: Patch adding *.oct to rebaseall for cygwin


--- Jason Tishler wrote:

> Igor,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:35:32AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > > rebaseall currently handles .dll files and the next version will
> > > handle .so files too.  I would prefer not to change rebaseall to
> > > handle non-standard shared library extensions.  Instead, can you
> > > change Cygwin octave to use one of the standard extensions for its
> > > shared libraries?
> > 
> > Would adding a command-line option to rebaseall that specifies
> > non-standard shared library extensions work?  That way, Jim could tell
> > the octave users to run rebaseall with the
> > "--add-non-standard-dll-suffix .oct" flag, and you won't have to worry
> > about all the extra extensions for shared libraries out there.
> 
> Yes, the above is a reasonable approach.  I will toss it onto the
> pile...
> 

This sounds great.  Much better than maintaining a patch.  I withdraw that idea
in favor of this one.  Thanks, Igor.



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