NAME

       lv2soname - script which can be used in your build system to translate a linker option into the soname

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the lv2soname command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       lv2soname script can be used in your build system to translate a linker option (e.g. -lgtkmm2.4) into the
       soname  (e.g. libgtkmm-2.4.so.1) for the shared library that ld will link to when given that command line
       option.  It will generate the RDF triples needed to tell hosts that the library  with  that  soname  must
       never be unloaded even after your plugin GUI library has been unloaded.

       e.g.  $ lv2soname '<http://my.gui>' '<http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#requiredFeature>' -lgtkmm-2.4

       If  the script for some reason can't determine the soname it will instead generate the RDF needed to tell
       the host to never unload the GUI library at all.

       However pretty much the same thing can be done by linking the plugin GUI using  the  -z  nodelete  linker
       option,  which  will  keep  the GUI library loaded even after the host runs dlclose(), requiring no extra
       support from the host.  So lv2soname is deprecated and will be removed in the next major version release.

       For more information please visit http://ll-plugins.nongnu.org

AUTHOR

       lv2soname was written by Lars Luthman <lars.luthman@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz>, for the Debian project (but may  be
       used by others).

                                                  May 12, 2010                                      LV2SONAME(1)