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)