On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:19:00 -0400 Yang Zhang wrote:

Hi, I'm working with a project whose build system passes -lboost_serialization as a flag to gcc. As far as I can tell from the configure options and from the Getting Started documentation, boost's installer only ever uses fully qualified names (libboost_serialization-gcc41-mt-1_35.so.1.35.0 on my system). Could the installer have possibly provided a libboost_serialization.so as well? Or did the authors of the project I'm trying to build probably manually create symlinks (or have their package manager create these) and assume that I would have the same? Thanks!

I ran into this problem as well. I'm using bjam and boost build for my project and I'm not sure how to get bjam to detect the various boost versions/compiler types. For development I've been installing boost in my home directory like this: ./configure --prefix=/home/USERNAME/local/stow/boost-rREVISIONNUMBER I then edit the generated Makefile to add --layout=system to the BJAM_CONFIG line. This removes the compiler and boost version mangling. I also use the --build-type=complete option to tell the build system to build all the possible combinations of shared/static debug/release mt/st. Here's the line that i have near the top of the Makefile: BJAM_CONFIG= --layout=system --build-type=complete I suppose for completeness I should add that I then run 'stow boost-rREVISIONNUMBER' from /home/USERNAME/local/stow to "stow" the files into /home/USERNAME/local. I also have the following environment variables set in my .bashrc: # Home directory installation setup export PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/local/bin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/local/lib export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/local/lib" export CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/local/include" export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/local/lib/pkgconfig Boost of course doesn't install any executable files and doesn't use pkg-config, so you don't need to change the PATH or set PKG_CONFIG_PATH. I suppose that a better solution would be to write a script to make the desired symbolic links or better yet have boost use something like pkg-config. Jeffrey