[Boost-users] Re: why so many .so and .a files for boost?

Tom Tan (SH/RDC) wrote:

That 's right. Try command: $ls -l libboost_regex-gcc-d.so -rwxr-xr-x 2 tomtan staff 5.5M Feb 21 10:54 libboost_regex-gcc-d.so Now see the second column. more than 1 (2 in this case) means this file has hard links. Anyway, why not a symbolic link ?

It's a long story.. But at the end it's what was easiest to implement at the time :-) As for the Windows case, it does a copy instead of the ln. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - Grafik/jabber.org