svdbg@free.fr wrote:

Hello,

I generated some Boost librairies with bjam, and I get many symbolic links.

For date_time :

libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.a libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so -> libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so.1.39.0 libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so.1.39.0 libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt.a -> libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.a libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt.so -> libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so.1.39.0

Why don't I just get the .a and .so ? Why these 3 symbolic links ? And why do the original files have a so complicated name for the .so, with the release version mentionned twice ?

Isn't it possible to just have :

libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.a libboost_date_time-gcc41-mt-1_39.so

Thanks for help. I don't know what to do of these symbolic links.

I believe that with 1.41 and later, you will get different names by default, for example: stage/lib/libboost_signals.a stage/lib/libboost_signals.so -> libboost_signals.so.1.42.0 stage/lib/libboost_signals.so.1.42.0 Does this make more sense? - Volodya