On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Robert Jones wrote:

Morning All,

So, I've followed the Getting Started guide pretty faithfully I think; specifically on Fedora 13, Gcc 4.4.5 I've used...

$ cd path/to/boost_1_48_0 $ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix --show-libraries $ ./b2 install --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix

That all seems to have worked Ok, and I have source and libraries in the appropriate prefix.

Then I come to section 6, and in particular section 6.1, which talks about library naming. My libraries don't appear to be named according to this structure. Taking, for example, Boost.Regex I have

libboost_regex.a libboost_regex.so libboost_regex.so.1.48.0

with no mention of toolsets or ABI tags. Does all the naming stuff only apply if you haven't used the host's default/native toolset?

Thx,

- Rob.

Ok, well I've figured out some of the answers by trial and error, and by using ./b2 --help. The getting started guide describes the default behaviour on Windows. The default behaviour on Linux is different. ./b2 takes a 'layout' parameter, which on Windows defaults to 'versioned' and on Linux to 'system'. By using ./b2 install --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix layout=versioned The behaviour becomes consistent with the docs. HTH someone! - Rob.