What is SONAME in port builds?

[Montgomery-Smith, Stephen]

On 10/02/2016 10:29 AM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
> I am trying to build the port graphics/opendx, and at the qa stage it says:
> 
> Error: /usr/local/dx/bin_freebsd/builder is linked to
> /usr/local/lib/libcdf.so which does not have a SONAME.
> science/cdf needs to be fixed.
> 
> What does this mean, and how do I fix it?

I came up with "a" solution:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=423146