Re: [Boost-users] Finding the correct library to link (feature request for pkg-config support)

on Sat Jul 14 2007, Roger Leigh wrote:

It would be great if Boost would provide a mechanism to allow such discovery. Such a mechanism already exists, and is called "pkg-config". By installing a small file in LIBDIR/pkgconfig for each Boost library, the pkg-config tool or PKG_CHECK_MODULES Autoconf macro may be used to query this information.

Please enter all of the material in your post into a ticket at svn.boost.org It's important, and I don't want it to get lost. Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com The Astoria Seminar ==> http://www.astoriaseminar.com