When I run bjam install on my laptop running Mandriva 2006, it places a lot of files in /usr/local/lib with names like libboost_XXX-gcc.a While I know that I can pass -lboost_XXX-gcc and it links, the -gcc bit seems to make things a bit too platform dependent for my liking. What's the proper way to handle that extra bit at the end of the library name? The project I'm working on uses autoconf/configure/make as its build environment.
Jason House wrote:
When I run bjam install on my laptop running Mandriva 2006, it places a lot of files in /usr/local/lib with names like libboost_XXX-gcc.a
While I know that I can pass -lboost_XXX-gcc and it links, the -gcc bit seems to make things a bit too platform dependent for my liking. What's the proper way to handle that extra bit at the end of the library name? The project I'm working on uses autoconf/configure/make as its build environment.
Hi Jason, I don't know what you replaced with XXX in your library names, but if you specify --layout=system on the Bjam command line, the library names are greatly simplified. You may have done that already for all I know, and I don't know that it will remove the -gcc. I do know that when I build the Boost libs on a Mac, using the Darwin toolset, my libraries end up with names like libboost_date_time-d.a (debug) and libboost_date_time.a (non-debug). - Rush
Rush Manbert wrote:
Jason House wrote:
When I run bjam install on my laptop running Mandriva 2006, it places a lot of files in /usr/local/lib with names like libboost_XXX-gcc.a
While I know that I can pass -lboost_XXX-gcc and it links, the -gcc bit seems to make things a bit too platform dependent for my liking. What's the proper way to handle that extra bit at the end of the library name? The project I'm working on uses autoconf/configure/make as its build environment.
Hi Jason,
I don't know what you replaced with XXX in your library names, but if you specify --layout=system on the Bjam command line, the library names are greatly simplified. You may have done that already for all I know, and I don't know that it will remove the -gcc. I do know that when I build the Boost libs on a Mac, using the Darwin toolset, my libraries end up with names like libboost_date_time-d.a (debug) and libboost_date_time.a (non-debug).
- Rush
--layout=system was what I needed. Thanks.
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